bachelorwise en · ADV
Etymology
From bachelor + -wise.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In the manner of a bachelor; (as though) living alone as a single man.
He's talking to himself, bachelorwise, and scowling at the map like a preacher reading Playboy.
1995, David Foster, Plumbum: The Ultimate Heavy Metal Experience, page 38:[…] and that though he retained the house in Great Coram Street for some time longer, he only occupied it fitfully, and that bachelorwise.
1891, Herman Charles Merivale, Sir Frank Thomas Marzials, John Parker Anderson, Life of W. M. Thackeray, page 113: