quietlike, a. and adv. orig. Sc.
[See -like 2 b.]
Apparently quiet; quietly.
In some or all of the modern examples the formation may have been influenced by the parenthetic use of like (see like adv. 7).
| c 1470 Henry Wallace v. 577 All his four men bar thaim quietlik. a 1902 Mod. Sc. Your horse is a quietlike beast. 1909 J. Masefield Tragedy of Nan ii. 31 He was fiddlin' quiet-like, all the time 'e were a-singing. 1913 W. de la Mare Peacock Pie 98 Calling me, ‘Sam!’—quietlike. 1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 102/2 Someone said, ‘It wasn't no mortar round,’ real quietlike. 1977 I. Shaw Beggarman, Thief i. iv. 49 Wesley turned to him and said, quiet-like, ‘Shut your big trap about Americans, limey.’ |