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hugsome

hugsome adjective: characterised or marked by hugging.

Adjective

hugsome (comparative more hugsome, superlative most hugsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by hugging
    • She was a hugsome lass; quiet enough to start in, but awful jumpy when she got going.1933, Malinda Plunkett Jenkins, Jesse Lilienthal, Gambler's wife
    • Don't you want to save your country, pro patria and ora pro nobis as the old I-talians used to say, and knock the eyes out of all the hugsome hussies with your uniform?1948, Henry Castor, The Spanglers

Forms of hugsome

comparativemore hugsome
superlativemost hugsome

Origin of hugsome

From hug + -some.

Questions about hugsome

What does hugsome mean?
Hugsome means characterised or marked by hugging.
What part of speech is hugsome?
Hugsome is an adjective.

Words near hugsome in the dictionary

  1. hugs
  2. hugs and kisses
  3. hugs it out
  4. hugs of death
  5. hugs oneself
  6. hugsome
  7. Huguan
  8. Huguang
  9. Huguely
  10. Huguenot
  11. Huguenotic

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