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tallsome

tallsome adjective: marked, or characterised by tallness.

Adjective

tallsome (comparative more tallsome, superlative most tallsome)

  1. Marked, or characterised by tallness
    • If you were yellow, 'stead of white, / And lived in far Hankow, / Had sat for weeks above the flood / Upon tallsome bough; [...]1931, The Auckland Star
    • The little man stood up on Chert's shoulder and doffed his ratskin hat before making a small bow. “Beetledown the Bowman, I hight, tallsome lady. [...]”2006, Tad Williams, Shadowmarch

Forms of tallsome

comparativemore tallsome
superlativemost tallsome

Origin of tallsome

From tall + -some.

Questions about tallsome

What does tallsome mean?
Tallsome means marked, or characterised by tallness.
What part of speech is tallsome?
Tallsome is an adjective.

Words near tallsome in the dictionary

  1. tallowwood
  2. Tallowwood Ridge
  3. tallowwoods
  4. tallowy
  5. talls
  6. tallsome
  7. talluh
  8. Tallulah
  9. Tallurutiup Imanga
  10. tallus
  11. tallwood

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