adv. (American).—Savage.
1843. W. T. PORTER, ed., The Big Bear of Arkansas, etc., 121. Well, Capting, they war mighty SAVAGEROUS arter likher.
1848. W. E. BURTON, Waggeries and Vagaries, 24. They growed so darned SAVAGEROUS that I kinder feared for my own safety.
1851. How Mike Hooter Came Very Near ‘Wolloping’ Arch Coony, in Polly Peablossom’s Wedding and Other Tales, p. 149. I looked at him sorter SERVAGEROUS like.
