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wiresome en · ADJ

Etymology

From wire + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by wire or wires; wiry.
   • By forest fountains hast thou seen / The wiresome, fairy sight, / Where banks are clad in mosses green, / Some dark, and some so bright? 1857, Friends' Intelligencer, volume 13:
   • I was hiresome, hick and hasteful / You were wiresome, wick and wasteful [...] 1987, Frank Luger, Herzenblut:

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