Resembling or characteristic of a butcher; crude, rough, brutal, or blood-stained.
From 'butcher' plus the adjective-forming suffix '-ly'. This '-ly' (from Old English '-lic' meaning 'like' or 'of the kind of') is different from the adverb-forming '-ly' and appears in words like kingly, friendly, and lovely.
English has two different '-ly' suffixes that sound identical—one makes adjectives (butcherly, friendly) and one makes adverbs (quickly, brutally). This homonymy creates confusion even for native speakers!
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