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topplesome en · ADJ

Etymology

From topple + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by toppling
   • In this case, it was a towerlike and topplesome sixteen-ouncer that brought a fresh unrest not to the kitchen table (how could I eat?), but to an outlying one, a step table, a side table, the one I strewed with my collectings, my pertainings, [...] 1998, Mid-American Review, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
   • There you are, Button," she said, quite naturally, with a little laugh, "and here am I, and I've been dreaming we and the rest were off among the stars in chase of a fly-away canary, in a dreadfully topplesome breeze-blown shallop, that, now I am awake and think of it, must have been the 'wooden shoe.' 1895, Margaret Harriet Matthews, Dame Prism:

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