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picklesome

picklesome adjective: characteristic or typical of a pickle (all senses).

Adjective

picklesome (comparative more picklesome, superlative most picklesome)

  1. Characteristic or typical of a pickle (all senses)
    • One is quickened with a sense of something near and sweet and wholesome in its pleasant company. It is the story of a summer's 'camping-out,' told in alternate chapters by a brother and sister, of the frank, jolly, rather 'picklesome' sort.1890, Anne Richardson Earle, Her Great Ambition
    • The additional fact may be appropriately mentioned here that a residence of five months in the stimulating atmosphere of New York had not by any means tended to make her less picklesome.1969 (original 1885), Color Studies

Forms of picklesome

comparativemore picklesome
superlativemost picklesome

Origin of picklesome

From pickle + -some.

Questions about picklesome

What does picklesome mean?
Picklesome means characteristic or typical of a pickle (all senses).
What part of speech is picklesome?
Picklesome is an adjective.

Words near picklesome in the dictionary

  1. picklery
  2. pickles
  3. pickles up
  4. picklese
  5. Picklesimer
  6. picklesome
  7. Pickless
  8. picklet
  9. pickletini
  10. pickletinis
  11. pickleweed

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