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prancesome

prancesome adjective: characterised or marked by prancing.

Adjective

prancesome (comparative more prancesome, superlative most prancesome)

  1. (rare) Characterised or marked by prancing
    • Did you ever stop to wonder Why, in Berkeley, our police Are such handsome and such prancesome, Stalwart guardians of the peace?1928, Annual Report of the City Manager
    • Now the hung and prancesome Yince of Wales was on deck and anxious to give me a natural.2005, Charles Potts, The Portable Potts, page 351

Forms of prancesome

comparativemore prancesome
superlativemost prancesome

Origin of prancesome

From prance + -some.

Questions about prancesome

What does prancesome mean?
Prancesome means characterised or marked by prancing.
What part of speech is prancesome?
Prancesome is an adjective.

Words near prancesome in the dictionary

  1. pranceful
  2. prancer
  3. prancercise
  4. prancers
  5. prances
  6. prancesome
  7. prancier
  8. pranciest
  9. prancin'
  10. prancing
  11. prancingly

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