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flailsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From flail + -some.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of a flail, or characterised by flailing
   • A minister of scholarly achievement, as sensitive to social influences as litmus paper to an agent, decided that his town and countryside had had enough of the slot machine racket and all its flailsome appendages. 1940, Winfred Ernest Garrison, Faith of the Free:
   • Greeny-crackly. Fever-trees. Scalesome. Flailsome. Tusky. I was eight reading those words; I remember. 2011, Beth Kephart, You Are My Only:
   • This features a cunning blend of pop vocal harmonic construction and flailsome, fringe-rock accompaniment. 1990, Spin, volume 5, number 12:

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