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bitesome

bitesome adjective: characterised or marked by biting.

Adjective

bitesome (comparative more bitesome, superlative most bitesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by biting
    • "Flies very bitesome."1882, Sessional Papers, Legislature of the Province of Ontario
    • In the first place, a genuine good cider flip could never be made until Boreas came with "bitesome breezes and blew- some blastesses" and froze the barrel of cider in the garret.1908, Eliza Benedict Hornby, Under Old Rooftrees
  2. (broadly) Causing emotional sting; disappointing; unsatisfactory
    • […] and, as for the other inconveniences, I remember that a Chinese woman who was just beginning to speak English said to her teacher: “Ma'am, in summer the inns are very bitesome. […]”1910, China's Millions
    • The inn was about the dirtiest that I had been in for many a long day. It was rather 'bitesome' also, and under such conditions one cannot well sleep.1916, Record of Christian Work, volume 35
  3. Having a bite to it; piquant.
    • Eight dollars affords you an incredible salmon filet, cooked to perfection and dressed with a cucumber yogurt sauce — the perfect contrast to the bitesome peppercorn crust.2000, Madison Magazine, volume 42

Examples of bitesome in a sentence

  • One of the boys runs into a bitesome boxer dog, then tracks down its owner in church and demands that justice be done for his torn trouser leg.1966, Newsweek, volume 67:
  • With it he sorted out the few poisonous fungi from the good ones, and enjoyed fallen fruit, carrion, tubers, berries, sprouted nuts, and the bitesome green balled fists of ferns just up.1981, William Stout, Byron Preiss, The dinosaurs:

Forms of bitesome

comparativemore bitesome
superlativemost bitesome

Origin of bitesome

From bite + -some.

Questions about bitesome

What does bitesome mean?
Bitesome means characterised or marked by biting.
How do you use bitesome in a sentence?
One of the boys runs into a bitesome boxer dog, then tracks down its owner in church and demands that justice be done for his torn trouser leg.
What part of speech is bitesome?
Bitesome is an adjective.

Words near bitesome in the dictionary

  1. bitesheep
  2. bitesheeps
  3. biteshipe
  4. biteshipes
  5. bitesize
  6. bitesome
  7. bitest
  8. bitesticular
  9. biteth
  10. bitetrad
  11. bitetrads

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