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hugsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From hug + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by hugging
   • Don't you want to save your country, pro patria and ora pro nobis as the old I-talians used to say, and knock the eyes out of all the hugsome hussies with your uniform? 1948, Henry Castor, The Spanglers:
   • She was a hugsome lass; quiet enough to start in, but awful jumpy when she got going. 1933, Malinda Plunkett Jenkins, Jesse Lilienthal, Gambler's wife:
   • I understand that one of the hugsome wenches down there is of a mind to have you at the grindstone 'ere long.' 1975, The revenge of Moriarty

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