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quakesome

quakesome adjective: characterised or marked by quaking.

Adjective

quakesome (comparative more quakesome, superlative most quakesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by quaking
    • At street corners after dark in the West End, and up courts in the City, may be heard the hoarse cornet à piston, the quakesome flute, and eke the twanging harp, in trinity of dissonance; [...]1883, Clement Scott, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, Charles Eglington, The Theatre - Volume 11
    • 'Ere 's me, look 'ee, trimming them borders, Sergeant, so 'appy-'earted as any bird, and all at once I falls to coldsome, quakesome shivers, my 'eart jumps into my jaws, my knees knocks an' trembles horrorsome-like, an' I sweats — "2010, Jeffery Farnol, F. Vaux Wilson, Our Admirable Betty

Forms of quakesome

comparativemore quakesome
superlativemost quakesome

Origin of quakesome

From quake + -some.

Questions about quakesome

What does quakesome mean?
Quakesome means characterised or marked by quaking.
What part of speech is quakesome?
Quakesome is an adjective.

Words near quakesome in the dictionary

  1. Quakertown
  2. Quakery
  3. quakes
  4. quakes in one's boots
  5. quakes in one's shoes
  6. quakesome
  7. quakest
  8. quaketail
  9. quaketails
  10. quaketh
  11. quakey

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