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loadsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From load + -some.

Meanings

1. (rare) burdensome
   • The loadsome Clog attempted Haste impedes, / And, sliding, baulks th' industrious clumsy Treads. 1770, Andrew Brice, The Mobiad; Or, Battle of the Voice, page 45:
   • Simple as they may seem, the seven basic operations we just described can prove quite loadsome. 1988, Euromicro Symposium on Microprocessing and Microprogramming, page 513:

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