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twigsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From twig + -some.

Meanings

  1. Full of twigs; twiggy.
    • [T]he twigsome trees by the wayside (which, I suppose, never will grow leafy, for they never did) guarded here and there by a dusty soldier, […] 1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, “Travelling Abroad”, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC, pages 91–92:

Forms

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more twigsome Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most twigsome Degree=Sup lexicographic