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pattersome

pattersome adjective: characterised or marked by pattering.

Adjective

pattersome (comparative more pattersome, superlative most pattersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by pattering
    • Of course among lilts so light many are unequal — some, if we may so term them, too "pattersome" for their subjects ; but if all are not poetry, all are at least verse — a rarer quality in these pretentious days than some imagine.1888, Time: A Monthly Magazine - Volume 19, page 255
    • Of course I know that gnomes do not exist; neither could I have believed that the Bamileke people were real until I saw them working in the fields, scuttering down the roads under colossal burdens, so pattersome and twinklefoot are they.1936, J.C. Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James, The London Mercury - Volume 33, page 594

Forms of pattersome

comparativemore pattersome
superlativemost pattersome

Origin of pattersome

From patter + -some.

Questions about pattersome

What does pattersome mean?
Pattersome means characterised or marked by pattering.
What part of speech is pattersome?
Pattersome is an adjective.

Words near pattersome in the dictionary

  1. patterny
  2. patterroller
  3. patterrollers
  4. patters
  5. patters flash
  6. pattersome
  7. Patterson
  8. Patterson Lakes
  9. Patterson syndrome
  10. Patterson Tract
  11. Patterson's curse

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