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spoilsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From spoil + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised by spoiling or ruin; ruinous
   • In my country, it's awful weather. And spoilsome weather. 1985, Blanche McCord Harrison, Changes in infant feeding practices of Vietnamese refugees interpreted through qualitative data:
   • My spoilsome sin is ever in front of my face. 2005, Calvin Seerveld, Voicing God's Psalms:
   • They muss our Monday washing up; on Tuesdays steal our tubs; a most distressful nuisance are these soilsome, spoilsome Blubs. 1918, St. Nicholas, Volume 45, Part 2:
   • Back in the spoilsome comforts of Kodiak and about to fly south again, I trade friendly barbs with my skipper over the seven-day St. Matthew opening. 1987, National Fisherman, volume 68:
   • A childish (and Rousseau-ist) view of children as noble savages often is part of a belief that nature is a sweet garden and science and technology are spoilsome intrusions. 1984, Gary Goshgarian, The Contemporary Reader from Little, Brown:

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