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eagersome en · ADJ

Etymology

From eager + -some.

Meanings

1. (rare) Characterised or marked by eagerness.
   • Even a knocked-about old palomer like me has seen enough o' men to ken when a one's too timid an' eagersome to stand by a lie. 1960, Analog Science Fact, Fiction - Volume 66, Issues 2-6, page 29:
   • It loves to coquette with my eagersome eyes, […] 1901, Eugene Field, Joseph G. Brown, A Little Book of Tribune Verse:

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