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powersome en · ADJ

Etymology

From power + -some.

Meanings

1. (dialectal) Characterised or marked by power; powerful.
   • "Uch ay," said MacErchar, "they be's powersome brutes— powersome brutes, in troth, and plaguy cunning.. 1886, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, The Wolfe of Badenoch: A Historical Romance of the Fourteenth Century:
   • “Gun, yes! But he is rich and powersome, and was our mayor. […]” 2014, John Brunner, Children of the Thunder:
   • So he moseyed over by the tracks to light up and loiter in the darker shadows of the water tower as a million years went by and then at last he spied the headlamp of a powersome Baldwin 4-6-2 puffing, thirsty, up from the southwest. 2000, Tabor Evans, Longarm 257: Longarm and the Nevada Bellydancer:

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