keerfully
English
Adverb
keerfully (comparative more keerfully, superlative most keerfully)
- Eye dialect spelling of carefully.
- (Can we date this quote?), Bret Harte, Selected Stories:
- "Look keerfully arter that baggage, Kernel," said the expressman, with affected concern, as he looked after Colonel Starbottle, gloomily bringing up the rear of the triumphant procession to the waiting-room. Mr. Hamlin did not stay for dinner.
- (Can we date this quote?), Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863:
- 'The loryer yere, hes spread hisself on Mulock's motive fur doin' this thing; 'sistin' thet fur seventeen yar he's ben a nussin' suthin--nussin' it as keerfully as a mother nusses her chil'ren.
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