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timbersome

timbersome is the obsolete form of timorsome.

Meaning of timorsome

Adjective

timorsome (comparative more timorsome, superlative most timorsome)

  1. (Scotland, dated) Easily frightened; timorous.
    • Maister Mordaunt , is as tender as ony man's in my degree ; but she is something of a timorsome nature , cannot abide angry folk1822, [Walter Scott], The Pirate. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC

Forms of timbersome

comparativemore timbersome
superlativemost timbersome

Questions about timbersome

What is timbersome the obsolete form of?
Timbersome is the obsolete form of timorsome.

Words near timbersome in the dictionary

  1. timbermongers
  2. timbern
  3. timbers
  4. Timberscombe
  5. Timberses
  6. timbersome
  7. timberwolf
  8. timberwolves
  9. timberwork
  10. timberworks
  11. timberwright

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Adapted from Wiktionary: timbersome (page history and authors); timorsome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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