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slowsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From slow + -some.

Meanings

1. Typified by slowness; characteristically slow
   • As I was travellin' through Lecale, I heered from a beggar a slowsome tale. 1948, David Marcus, Poetry Ireland - Issues 1-19:
   • Sounds like a quick death you may think, but I done it sev'ral times an' s'prisin' slowsome it is, b'lief me. 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
most slowsome	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
more slowsome	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic

slowsome en · ADV

Etymology

From slow + -some.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard) In a characteristically slow or slowsome manner; slowly
   • Don't bile fast but jes' let yo' pot simper along slowsome. 2013, Frederick Douglass Opie, Hog and Hominy:
   • Moose smiled, slowsome. 1992, Stephen Dueweke, Playing Soldiers in the Dark:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
more slowsome	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
most slowsome	Degree=Sup		lexicographic