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throbsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From throb + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by throbbing.
   • I long to write decadent things, And once I boldly tried Some throbsome verse about a hearse, When little sister died. 1894, The Cornell Widow, volume 1, page 3:
   • I had a cement bottom put in the cellar and shortly after we missed our throbsome, winsome neuter pronoun. 1896, F. Martin Townsend, Assorted Colours: Studies of Character in Town and Country, page 86:
   • Hear the church bells' throbsome chiming, Hear the one word they repeat— Hear the voice of Nature rhyming With my heart-song—"Marguerite!" 1888, Robert Overton, '20', A Volume of Story and Song, page 118:

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