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latesome en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English latesom, latsom, latsum, from Old English lætsum (“slow; late”), equivalent to late + -some.

Meanings

1. (Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) Marked by lateness; characteristically late
   • "By gane Times and latesome Changes," [...] 1818, Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review:
   • [...] but if I should take of your cattle, and so I think for to do; for I have no oxen to get your corn with, nor none I cannot get carried, for every man is so busy with their own (21st August); for weather is so latesome in this country (Kinalton, Notts) that men can neither well get com nor hay-[...] 1843, The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge:

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