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funsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From fun + -some.

Meanings

1. Marked by fun; enjoyable; amusing; entertaining
   • He'd asked for more hookers, and I slapped him playfully. As much as I didn't want to admit—I liked Oscar. He'd called me a whore and grabbed my boob, but beneath the brash exterior lurked a fun-some surfer whose blue eyes caused one or two wings of attraction in my stomach. 2014, Pepper Winters, Destroyed:
   • Nothing is a greater turn-on for Mom than seeing her funsome leading man enjoying her offspring. 2003, Andre Stein, Peter Samu, Father's Milk:
   • The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that humor was aplenty “in the unaffectedly joyous antics of [the] typical funsome Negro,” the production giving vent to “their natural flair for 'play actin' and their natural love of idolization.” 2015, Peter Gough, Sounds of the New Deal:

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