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broodsome en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English brood Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English broodsome From brood + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by brooding.
   • Impatient, perhaps, for the child to be born, over the next weeks I was more “broodsome” than ever, as Randall put it — some word he'd picked up in the village. 2010, Elizabeth Bunce, Elizabeth C. Bunce, A Curse Dark As Gold:
   • I con the energy of each and all, I am myself a broodsome cognisance, Watching how this and that by bulb and stem then Leans forth, [...] 1908, Gerda Dalliba, An Earth Poem, and Other Poems:
   • The forest highway was as empty, broodsome, and silent as any spirit grove in a fanciful Deadman's Land; [...] 1903, Ernest A. Treeton, The Instigator:

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