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flickersome

flickersome adjective: characterised or marked by flickering.

Adjective

flickersome (comparative more flickersome, superlative most flickersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by flickering.
    • And Martha thought these fine ladies were that flickersome, all milk o' human kindness when it wahn't no use, and stones o' granite when takin' trouble might come handy.1920, Greville Macdonald, The North Door
    • The kemenche had started shrieking like a thing possessed, the oud was going bananas, and now Zenzational Zenaide was zooming to her big finish, “then a crazed madness enters in,” where the maiden flung herself at the bars, and the bars flung her back, and she flung herself again, and again...2012, Nik Cohn, Need

Forms of flickersome

comparativemore flickersome
superlativemost flickersome

Origin of flickersome

From flicker + -some.

Questions about flickersome

What does flickersome mean?
Flickersome means characterised or marked by flickering.
What part of speech is flickersome?
Flickersome is an adjective.

Words near flickersome in the dictionary

  1. flickerings
  2. flickerless
  3. flickermice
  4. flickermouse
  5. flickers
  6. flickersome
  7. flickertail
  8. flickertail squirrel
  9. Flickertail State
  10. flickertails
  11. flickery

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