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tripsome

tripsome adjective: characterised or marked by tripping (light stepping); light-footed; nimble.

Adjective

tripsome (comparative more tripsome, superlative most tripsome)

  1. (archaic) Characterised or marked by tripping (light stepping); light-footed; nimble
    • Not prurient Mars, / Pointing his toe through ten celestial bars — / Not young Apollo, beamily array'd / In tripsome guise for Juno's masquerade — / Not smartest Hermes, with his pinion girth, [...]1804, Sir Theodore Martin, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Alfred Crowquill, The Book of Ballads
    • [...] she had never seen the triumph of a winner expand beyond the buckram simper of General Lorriston on dropping two halfcrowns into his spangled card-purse; or the tripsome sprightliness of Lady Lavinia Lisle's parting curtsey, [...]1831, Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review - Volume 125

Forms of tripsome

comparativemore tripsome
superlativemost tripsome

Origin of tripsome

From trip + -some.

Questions about tripsome

What does tripsome mean?
Tripsome means characterised or marked by tripping (light stepping); light-footed; nimble.
What part of speech is tripsome?
Tripsome is an adjective.

Words near tripsome in the dictionary

  1. trips the light fantastic toe
  2. trips to the woodshed
  3. trips up
  4. tripsinization
  5. tripsis
  6. tripsome
  7. tripster
  8. tripsters
  9. tript
  10. triptan
  11. triptane

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