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weaksome en · ADJ

Etymology

From weak + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by weakness; feeble
   • “[...] And how shall the weaksome rise if they that loves 'em best deserts 'em ?” 1899, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 166:
   • 'Are they both pub-crawlers?' asked Edwina, whose thoughts had gone back to times when pubs, if they then existed — and when did they not exist, in one form or another, since there were vases, bowls, jars, flagons, cups, however mutilated and weaksome, to suggest their existence—'one doesn't necessarily have to go to a pub to get a drink. 1972, Leslie Poles Hartley, The collections:
   • A beggar in course he is, poor brat, but, saving your worship's pardon, I don't see how he can be anything else — coming, as he did, by a wrong tack into the world, and taken up by a weaksome, cranky creature, as always lived more or less on charity. 1884, Mr. Nobody - Volume 1
   • 'Call that a bite? You is weaksome as a wormwiggler!' Grimbeard carried them over to the fireside, where he gave his brother's chair a savage kick. 2012, Alan MacDonald, Sir Bigwart: Knight of the Wonky Table:
   • My old mother is pretty weaksome, and can't do much besides get the victuals, so I have to look to all the geese and pigs and hens, when I or't to be 'tendin' to the cattle, and plowin' and farm-work. 1861, Philip Thaxter: A Novel

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