Turkwise

adv

Turkwise

adv

Etymology From Turk + -wise.

1

In the manner of a Turk or Turks.

  • "What if I give him the bastinado, Turkwise? Methinks that would bring him into a sounder temper."1835, Robert Montgomery Bird, Cortes; or, The fall of Mexico, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, page 120:

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