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curlsome

curlsome adjective: characterised or marked by curls.

Adjective

curlsome (comparative more curlsome, superlative most curlsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by curls.
    • And time again My bluest lady fair Serenely still passed by And felt her goldlike Hair Ah! here a curlsome smile meekly awhile.1918, Eric Paul Schulze, Vers Ego
    • Physics of H-eigenwaves in a periodic iris-loaded circular waveguide is generally characterized using a number of the typical power flows. Both the reflectionless flows and the ones contra-directional over the guide's cross-section are included, as well as the curlsome ones and others.1996, Serge K. Katenev, International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves: Volume 17, Issue 1

Examples of curlsome in a sentence

  • Well, then take a qu[i]ck gander over at the Surf Channel, an online resource for everything curlsome and frothy.2007, Erik Olsen, Surf During Lunch:
  • [...] snifflemas daisies and troublesome coughfulness; hibernating curlsome and logful smokefulness.2010, Susie Groom-Smith, Face at the Window:

Forms of curlsome

comparativemore curlsome
superlativemost curlsome

Origin of curlsome

From curl + -some.

Questions about curlsome

What does curlsome mean?
Curlsome means characterised or marked by curls.
How do you use curlsome in a sentence?
Well, then take a qu[i]ck gander over at the Surf Channel, an online resource for everything curlsome and frothy.
What part of speech is curlsome?
Curlsome is an adjective.

Words near curlsome in the dictionary

  1. curls for the girls
  2. curls one off
  3. curls one out
  4. curls someone's hair
  5. curls up
  6. curlsome
  7. Curlwaa
  8. curly
  9. curly apostrophe
  10. curly apostrophes
  11. curly birch

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