unbridegroomlike
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + bridegroomlike.
Adjective
[edit]unbridegroomlike (comparative more unbridegroomlike, superlative most unbridegroomlike)
- (dated) Not bridegroomlike.
- 1844, Hampton Court; Or, The Prophecy Fulfilled, page 247:
- Shaking himself from his wife, Monk traversed the passages from the chapel to the tower of the fortress alone in a very unbridegroomlike way to his apartment, […]
- 1846, William Motherwell, Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, page 251:
- Earl Richard's unbridegroomlike behaviour on his wedding night, and his agreeable discovery on the morrow, will remind the ballad reader of the gentle Sir Gawaine, […]
- 1870, Marion Harland, Helen Gardner's Wedding-day, page 139:
- Then the bridegroom came slowly up the walk, wearing a very unbridegroomlike aspect, […]