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clambersome en · ADJ

Etymology

From clamber + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterized or marked by clambering.
   • "[...] Mind where ye are comin', you Geordies, wi' your big, clambersome feet!" 1908, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Princess Penniless:
   • Your guardian wood remains unbowed, / full of clambersome concealing; [...] 1976, Rainer Maria Rilke, Poems, 1906 to 1926:
   • In my children's arms, in my children's eyes / there is love and anguish and knowing too wise / for this piddledunk world and its spinachy ways / its clambersome nights and blistering days / I offer my arms for their snuggletug ease / for their dream down wares and their 'zactly stuff, please God / let it be enough 2011, Traci L. Slatton, Dancing in the Tabernacle:

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