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barksome

barksome adjective: characterised or marked by barking.

Adjective

barksome (comparative more barksome, superlative most barksome)

  1. Characterised or marked by barking
    • I stepped over to the corner and lifted the sheets of paper, and there she was, tinier than I had remembered, and no longer fierce or barksome, and no longer any super dog, capable of great and daring leaps of escape, but instead a quivering, terrified little pup.2001, Rick Bass, Colter
    • Yet Hamlet thought he heard someone speaking, and not inside the stables, where grooms would be caring for the horses, and not in the kennels, either, where the barksome dogs were being fed and petted.2008, Marvin Kaye, The Ghost Quartet

Forms of barksome

comparativemore barksome
superlativemost barksome

Origin of barksome

From bark + -some.

Questions about barksome

What does barksome mean?
Barksome means characterised or marked by barking.
What part of speech is barksome?
Barksome is an adjective.

Words near barksome in the dictionary

  1. barks at the wrong tree
  2. barks up the wrong tree
  3. Barksdale
  4. Barkses
  5. Barksian
  6. barksome
  7. Barkstead
  8. Barkston
  9. Barkston Ash
  10. Barkul
  11. Barkus

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