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stragglesome en · ADJ

Etymology

From straggle + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by straggling.
   • Bombay is too green, too pretty, and too stragglesome; and Madras died ever so long ago. 2016, Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea:
   • But movement is scarce here tonight: stragglesome wanderers, looking purposeless and disattached, strolling for the sake of motion. 2009, Jonathan Miles, Dear American Airlines:

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