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cornersome en · ADJ

Etymology

From corner + -some.

Meanings

1. (dated) Characterised or marked by (having) corners.
   • Between them and home lay the 10 miles of road over Snaefell summit, 6 miles of steep up-grade with two wicked hairpin bends, and 4 miles of very fast descent, also somewhat cornersome. 1911, Motorcycle Illustrated, volume 6, page 46:
   • The road is cornersome, but much easier to find than one would imagine from the map. 1902, Car: A Journal of Travel by Land, Sea and Air, volume 2, page 120:
   • For one man's virtues may be in such a crude and cornersome stage of development that they will offend more than the refined faults of another man. 1903, Ellen Burns Sherman, Why Love Grows Cold, page 120:
   • It is cornersome, but goodly; intricate, but interesting, and worth the learning. 1904, John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu Montagu (2nd Baron), The Best Ways Out of London:

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