scullionly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]scullionly (comparative more scullionly, superlative most scullionly)
- (obsolete) Like a scullion; base.
- 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. […], [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC:
- But this is not for an unbuttoned fellow to discuss in the garret at his trestle , and dimension of candle by the snuff ; which brought forth his scullionly paraphrase on St . Paul
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scullionly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)