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gripsome

gripsome adjective: characterised or marked by gripping.

Adjective

gripsome (comparative more gripsome, superlative most gripsome)

  1. (dialectal, rare) Characterised or marked by gripping.
    • […] it's quite small, swipes like, and a'n't wholesome for us poor old bodies; it's quite gripsome like; […]1837, Charles White, The Married Unmarried, volume 1, page 95
    • (O God! that I, of all dolts, Had a forty-four gripsome Colt's!)1900, Prescott Hartford Belknap, The Canalero, the Trooper, page 35

Forms of gripsome

comparativemore gripsome
superlativemost gripsome

Origin of gripsome

From grip + -some.

Questions about gripsome

What does gripsome mean?
Gripsome means characterised or marked by gripping.
What part of speech is gripsome?
Gripsome is an adjective.

Words near gripsome in the dictionary

  1. grips
  2. grips grain
  3. grips off
  4. gripsack
  5. gripsacks
  6. gripsome
  7. gript
  8. griptape
  9. gription
  10. gripy
  11. Griqua

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