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vexsome

vexsome adjective: vexatious, vexing, irritating.

Adjective

vexsome (comparative more vexsome, superlative most vexsome)

  1. (dated) Vexatious, vexing, irritating.
    • The poor wee lambs, wi' vexsome lays.
      Ran ithers foul.1852, John Fraser, “The Muses' Temple”, in Poetic Chimes, or, Leisure Lays:, 2nd edition, Paisley: Alex Gardner, page 136
    • “And their manner o' speech is most vexsome—a long, sing-song kind o' yaumering as if they had not sufficient manliness to say outright what they meant.”1880, William Black, “An Unspoken Appeal” (chapter XI), in White Wings, volume II, London: MacMillan and Co., pages 200-201

Forms of vexsome

comparativemore vexsome
superlativemost vexsome

Origin of vexsome

From vex + -some.

Questions about vexsome

What does vexsome mean?
Vexsome means vexatious, vexing, irritating.
What part of speech is vexsome?
Vexsome is an adjective.

Words near vexsome in the dictionary

  1. vexing
  2. vexing glass
  3. vexingly
  4. vexingness
  5. vexings
  6. vexsome
  7. vext
  8. Veynes
  9. Veys
  10. Vezina
  11. Vezinas

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