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shortsome

shortsome adjective: marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) (of time) amusing; enjoyable.

Adjective

shortsome (comparative more shortsome, superlative most shortsome)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) Marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) (of time) amusing; enjoyable
    • […] and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time "unco shortsome."1827, Thomas Dibdin, The Reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin
    • There's seven maries in your bower, / There's seven o them and three, / And I'll send them to good greenwood, / For flowers to shortsome thee.1886, F. J. Child, The Brown Robin

Forms of shortsome

comparativemore shortsome
superlativemost shortsome

Origin of shortsome

From short + -some. For sense development from short to amusing, compare merry.

Questions about shortsome

What does shortsome mean?
Shortsome means marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) (of time) amusing; enjoyable.
What part of speech is shortsome?
Shortsome is an adjective.

Words near shortsome in the dictionary

  1. shortsheeting
  2. shortsheets
  3. shortsighted
  4. shortsightedly
  5. shortsightedness
  6. shortsome
  7. shortstack
  8. shortstacks
  9. shortstop
  10. shortstopped
  11. shortstopping

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