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clawsome

clawsome adjective: characterised or marked by having claws.

Adjective

clawsome (comparative more clawsome, superlative most clawsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by having claws
    • I'm acutely aware that this lovely blond beast, if properly provoked, could rip my lungs out with a single swipe of clawsome paw.1997, David Petersen, The Nearby Faraway
    • Elvis had turned his back on the Church of the Almost-Here End, sold his soul to MOR, but Jerry Lee kept pumping—Holiness! Tongues!—and with each new clawsome, wild wife, with every new midnight violence, every extravagance of face, he slid further from grace.2009, Nick Tosches, Country

Forms of clawsome

comparativemore clawsome
superlativemost clawsome
alternative formclaw-some

Origin of clawsome

From claw + -some.

Questions about clawsome

What does clawsome mean?
Clawsome means characterised or marked by having claws.
What part of speech is clawsome?
Clawsome is an adjective.

Words near clawsome in the dictionary

  1. claws
  2. claws away
  3. claws back
  4. claws off
  5. clawsful
  6. clawsome
  7. Clawson
  8. Clawson point
  9. Clawson, Hose and Harby
  10. Clawsons
  11. clawy

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