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Burglariously:
I wouldn't have guessed that "burglariously" is a word, but apparently it is.

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FantasiaWHT:
Gee, and I thought it referred to someone who broke into a house and then proceeded to have a variety of humorous pratfalls and mishaps.
8.1.2007 3:20pm
Richard Gould-Saltman (mail):
Goes along with "contumaciously"; one of those words that I look at, think "There's got to be a better, shorter one that means the same thing...", then scratch my head in vain trying to conjure one.


r gould-saltman
8.1.2007 3:26pm
Anderson (mail) (www):
"Burglarious" appears in The Pirates of Penzance, and it's a short suffix to the adverb from there.

[Police conceal themselves. As they do so, the Pirates are seen appearing at ruined windows. They enter cautiously, and come down stage. SAMUEL is laden with burglarious tools and pistols, etc.]
8.1.2007 3:26pm
Crust (mail):
From the OED:
Hence burglariously adv.
1807 Opie Lect. Art iii. (1848) 311 Burglariously entered
the Temple of Fame by the window. 1883 Law Rep. XI. Queen's
B. 588 The plaintiff's dwelling-house..was burglariously entered.
8.1.2007 3:34pm
Crust (mail):
In addition to Gilbert as Anderson notes, "burglarious" appears in Thackeray and Dickens. For such an improbable word, it has a remarkable pedigree. I don't see any references to it in the 20th or 21st centuries, though.
8.1.2007 3:38pm
MattDessem (mail):
But what about "Hamburglariously?"
adv. 1. With an intent to burgle hamburgers; in the manner of the Hamburglar.

The plaintiff's hamburger...was hamburglariously eaten.
8.1.2007 3:39pm
Hoosier:
Matt--Best post of the day! Thanks.
8.1.2007 3:44pm
Gino:
And you knew this was coming ...

What about "Sandy Burglariously"? adv. 1. With an intent to steal by stuffing things down your pants and socks, i.e., as in documents from the National Archives.
8.1.2007 3:53pm
Crust (mail):
Gino, with apologies for fact-checking humor, the story about Sandy Berger stuffing documents in his pants and socks is most likely apocryphal. (He did take documents, or rather copies of documents, but the anonymously sourced Daily News story that created the meme that he put them in his socks never made much sense. As Bill O'Reilly pointed out, if archive employees really did see that they should have stopped it and reported it, which they didn't.)
8.1.2007 4:27pm
ZSM (www):
Burglariousosity? Burglariouslyness? Burglariousnish?
8.1.2007 4:34pm
Hoosier:
But he did hide them under a construction trailer, right? (I've got a 'trailer trash'/Clinton joke riding on your answer.)
8.1.2007 4:34pm
Ken Lammers (mail) (www):
This is a word still in use in Virginia. Specifically, it is illegal to possess burglarious tools. Virginia Code secs. 18.2-94, 37.2-416, &37.2-506.
8.1.2007 6:42pm
Hoosier:
And yet no VCer has suggested a meaning for 'Warrenburglariously.' Alas.
8.2.2007 7:53am