brokerly
English
Etymology
Adjective
brokerly (comparative more brokerly, superlative most brokerly)
- (obsolete) mean (money-pinching) or servile
- 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- A brokerly slave,
References
- “brokerly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.