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wagsome

wagsome adjective: waggish.

Adjective

wagsome (comparative more wagsome, superlative most wagsome)

  1. Waggish.
    • Still humoured he his wagsome turn, // And fed in various ways / The coward rage that dared to burn // But did not dare to blaze.1869, W. S. Gilbert, “Peter the Wag”, in The "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense, John Camden Hotten, page 194
    • The Evening Grinner sent its funniest journalist and its most wagsome artist to the court.1894 May 26, Pick-Me-Up, volume 12, number 288, page 115

Forms of wagsome

comparativemore wagsome
superlativemost wagsome

Origin of wagsome

From wag + -some.

Questions about wagsome

What does wagsome mean?
Wagsome means waggish.
What part of speech is wagsome?
Wagsome is an adjective.

Words near wagsome in the dictionary

  1. wags
  2. wags a finger
  3. wags hemp
  4. wags it
  5. wags the dog
  6. wagsome
  7. Wagstaff
  8. Wagstaffe
  9. Wagstaffs
  10. wagster
  11. wagsters

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