Adjective: fusome
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fusome |
| Superlative | most fusome |
Sample Sentences
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While glakit fools, owr rife o' cash, Pamper their weyms wi' fusome trash, I think a chiel may gayly pass; [1799, Robert Fergusson, Poems on various subjects, page 113:]
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Waes me! waes me! siccan a fusome sight as I am. [1825, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Lochandhu: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century, page 63:]
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Out, fie, the fusome carlie! The ill contriving carlie! [1851, Edwin Paxton Hood, Genius & Industry: The Achievements of Mind Among the Cottages, page 111:]
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And ye be gaun to court a wife, ye do tell to me, ' Tis ye sall hae my Fusome Fug, Your ae wife for to be, be, Your ae wife for to be. [1859, Child, English and Scottish Ballads - Volume 8, page 142:]
Adjectives inflected like fusome
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Alternative form of fulsome