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marmsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From marm + -some.

Meanings

1. (archaic, dialectal, rare) Characteristic or typical of a marm; motherly; matronly
   • He was surrounded by three females, all his abject slaves ! a cook, a sort of marmsome housekeeper, who waited at table, and his typewriter amanuensis, who was subserviently tyrannical, as she should be. 1918, Caroline P. Atkinson, Letters of Susan Hale:

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