proprietorial
/prəˌprʌɪəˈtɔːrɪəl
/adjective
Behaving as if one owned a particular thing or person; possessive: Louis draped his arm across her shoulders in a proprietorial way...
- It's a caper through London's East End in the company of four blokes with a proprietorial interest in a boozer, which acts as the control centre for their dodgy enterprises.
- Road rage is a telling example; that's just people becoming proprietorial about something they should share.
- It has been free from proprietorial interference for nearly 10 years now.
Derivatives
proprietorially
- It will be strange not to find him standing proprietorially amid the young revellers in the Pleasance courtyard, calling you over for a drink and bending your ear on some matter of Fringe politics.
- As he proprietorially slaps her buttocks he is saying words she can't make out.
- Michelle was there too, holding his arm proprietorially.
Rhymes
- pageant wagon
- pageboy
- page break
- page charge
- page-cord
- paged
- page description language
- pagedom
- pageful
- page gage
- page galley
- page gauge
- Page, Geraldine
- pagehood
- page-like
- page number
- page-one
- page picture
- page printer
- page printing
- page proof
- pager
- page reference
- pageship
- Page, Sir Frederick Handley