unbridegroomlike

unbridegroomlike

English

Etymology

un- +‎ bridegroomlike

Adjective

unbridegroomlike (comparative more unbridegroomlike, superlative most unbridegroomlike)

1. 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, […]