Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the character of a whoremaster; libidinous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the character of a whoremaster; lecherous; libidinous.

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  • adjective Having the character of a whoremaster; lecherous; libidinous.

Etymologies

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whoremaster +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • That dissembling abominable varlet, Diomed, has got that same scurvy doting foolish young knave’s sleeve of Troy there in his helm: I would fain see them meet; that that same young Trojan ass, that loves the whore there, might send that Greekish whoremasterly villain, with the sleeve, back to the dissembling luxurious drab, on a sleeveless errand.

    Act V. Scene IV. Troilus and Cressida 1914

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  • An adjective you don't meet every day.

    January 6, 2012

  • Marvellous!

    January 6, 2012