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wagsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From wag + -some.

Meanings

  1. Waggish.
    • Still humoured he his wagsome turn, // And fed in various ways / The coward rage that dared to burn // But did not dare to blaze. 1869, W. S. Gilbert, “Peter the Wag”, in The "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense, John Camden Hotten, page 194:
    • The Evening Grinner sent its funniest journalist and its most wagsome artist to the court. 1894 May 26, Pick-Me-Up, volume 12, number 288, page 115:

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most wagsome Degree=Sup lexicographic
more wagsome Degree=Cmp lexicographic