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lucksome en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English luxom, *luksom, equivalent to luck + -some.

Meanings

1. Marked by luck; fortunate; characterised as lucky
   • "You are a bucketful of green," observed Frank when I flopped over onto my back and looked up at him standing tall and dripping against the Texas sky. "You're mighty lucksome the river's so low." 2010, Loren D. Estleman, Billy Gashade:
   • “Prophet of ill, never yet to me spakest thou thing lucksome”—this was the sentiment of that river when disappointed of Alice. 2016, Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Alice Lorraine:
2. Blessed.
   • His conscience was clear; his heart was cheered; so, deep inhaling the luxom air, and breathing his pious ejaculations to heaven, he sprung forward to his journey, […] 1836, Mason Locke Weems, The Life of William Penn, page 50:

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