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friendsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English frendsome, equivalent to friend + -some (adjective). Compare Scots friendsome (“friendly”), Dutch vriendzaam (“friendly”), German freundsam (“friendly”).

Meanings

1. (colloquial, usually) Indicating or characterised by friendship; in manner, like or befitting a friend; friendlike; friendly.
   • […] maybe Yanagi b'liefed us an' maybe he din't, but he bartered us fungusdo' for rockfish an' warned us Waimea Town weren't so friendsome as it'd been once, nay, Kona say-soed'n'knucklied ficklewise an' you cudn't guess their b'havin's. 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:
   • Everyone outside my mother called father Eben. Father looked up and smiled. He and Miss Bet had been terrible friendsome ever since the day when, as a tiddleliwinkie snip o' a child [...] 1901, Gwendoline Keats, Tales of Dunstáble Weir - Page 130:
   • He was long-married hisownself, real friendsome, and his smile wasn't aimed at me, it was to match my own. 2000, Randall Beth Platt, The 1898 Baseball Fe-As-Ko - Page 156:

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Deriveds

friendsomeness