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broodsome

adj

Etymology

From brood + -some.

  1. derived from *bʰreh₁-✻ — “breath, mist, vapour, steam”
  2. inherited from *brōduz✻ — “heat, breeding”
  3. inherited from brōd — “brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”
  4. inherited from brood
  5. suffixed as broodsome — “brood + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by brooding

    • The forest highway was as empty, broodsome, and silent as any spirit grove in a fanciful Deadman's Land; [...]
    • I con the energy of each and all, I am myself a broodsome cognisance, Watching how this and that by bulb and stem then Leans forth, [...]
    • Impatient, perhaps, for the child to be born, over the next weeks I was more “broodsome” than ever, as Randall put it — some word he'd picked up in the village.

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