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rabblesome

rabblesome adjective: characteristic or typical of (a) rabble.

Adjective

rabblesome (comparative more rabblesome, superlative most rabblesome)

  1. Characteristic or typical of (a) rabble
    • The little shack on the harbour was a very different place this Saturday luncheon time, thronged with people: a long queue of men and women snaking out of the door and coiling around the side, and on the bollards and lobster pots and the harbour wall itself there were gangs of little boys and...2013, Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses

Forms of rabblesome

comparativemore rabblesome
superlativemost rabblesome

Origin of rabblesome

From rabble + -some.

Questions about rabblesome

What does rabblesome mean?
Rabblesome means characteristic or typical of (a) rabble.
What part of speech is rabblesome?
Rabblesome is an adjective.

Words near rabblesome in the dictionary

  1. rabblements
  2. rabbler
  3. rabblerousing
  4. rabblers
  5. rabbles
  6. rabblesome
  7. rabbling
  8. rabblings
  9. rabbly
  10. rabboni
  11. rabbonim

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