weaksome
weaksome adjective: characterised or marked by weakness; feeble.
Adjective
weaksome (comparative more weaksome, superlative most weaksome)
- Characterised or marked by weakness; feeble
- My old mother is pretty weaksome, and can't do much besides get the victuals, so I have to look to all the geese and pigs and hens, when I or't to be 'tendin' to the cattle, and plowin' and farm-work.1861, Philip Thaxter: A Novel
- A beggar in course he is, poor brat, but, saving your worship's pardon, I don't see how he can be anything else — coming, as he did, by a wrong tack into the world, and taken up by a weaksome, cranky creature, as always lived more or less on charity.1884, Mr. Nobody - Volume 1
Examples of weaksome in a sentence
- “[...] And how shall the weaksome rise if they that loves 'em best deserts 'em ?”1899, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 166:
- You is weaksome as a wormwiggler!' Grimbeard carried them over to the fireside, where he gave his brother's chair a savage kick.2012, Alan MacDonald, Sir Bigwart: Knight of the Wonky Table:
Forms of weaksome
| comparative | more weaksome |
|---|---|
| superlative | most weaksome |
Origin of weaksome
From weak + -some.
Questions about weaksome
- What does weaksome mean?
- Weaksome means characterised or marked by weakness; feeble.
- How do you use weaksome in a sentence?
- “[...] And how shall the weaksome rise if they that loves 'em best deserts 'em ?”
- What part of speech is weaksome?
- Weaksome is an adjective.
Words near weaksome in the dictionary
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