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gritsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From grit + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by grit (all senses); gritty
   • He muflles hometward veiny eyed / With gritsome mudcrumped bag of sleep. 1973, New York Magazine, volume 6, number 38:
   • She may be gritsome enough to shoot her arch nemesis Tom Chaney, played by a desperately underused Josh Brolin, twice, but she promptly falls down a well and has to be rescued by her two dads. 2011, Mark Wilshin, Raising Arkansas:
   • And noumena, transcending Earth, / The gritsome round of rocks [...] 1961, John Merton Patrick, Buried astronomy:

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