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meandersome en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English meander Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English meandersome From meander + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by meandering.
   • […] and the tortoises permitted to take their meandersome way, did bobble in the dark in a glimmering sarabande, […] 1999, Patricia Eakins, The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste, page 67:
   • To my agent, Julia Kardon, who believed in this novel from its strange, meandersome beginnings. 2022, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Before All the World:

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