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shortsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From short + -some. For sense development from short to amusing, compare merry.

Meanings

1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) Marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) (of time) amusing; enjoyable
   • […] and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time "unco shortsome." 1827, Thomas Dibdin, The Reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin:
   • 'Twould be a dreary, lonely spring at Carlyle without shortsome Jane to add color to her days. 2009, Liz Curtis Higgs, Fair Is the Rose:
   • There's seven maries in your bower, / There's seven o them and three, / And I'll send them to good greenwood, / For flowers to shortsome thee. 1886, F. J. Child, The Brown Robin:

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