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flailsome

flailsome adjective: characteristic of a flail, or characterised by flailing.

Adjective

flailsome (comparative more flailsome, superlative most flailsome)

  1. Characteristic of a flail, or characterised by flailing
    • A minister of scholarly achievement, as sensitive to social influences as litmus paper to an agent, decided that his town and countryside had had enough of the slot machine racket and all its flailsome appendages.1940, Winfred Ernest Garrison, Faith of the Free
    • This features a cunning blend of pop vocal harmonic construction and flailsome, fringe-rock accompaniment.1990, Spin, volume 5, number 12

Forms of flailsome

comparativemore flailsome
superlativemost flailsome

Origin of flailsome

From flail + -some.

Questions about flailsome

What does flailsome mean?
Flailsome means characteristic of a flail, or characterised by flailing.
What part of speech is flailsome?
Flailsome is an adjective.

Words near flailsome in the dictionary

  1. flailingly
  2. flailings
  3. flaillike
  4. flails
  5. flails about
  6. flailsome
  7. flaily
  8. Flaim
  9. Flaims
  10. flain
  11. flair

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