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cripplesome

adj

Etymology

From cripple + -some.

  1. derived from *ger-✻
  2. derived from *grewb-✻
  3. derived from *krupilaz✻
  4. derived from crypel
  5. derived from cripel
  6. suffixed as cripplesome — “cripple + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by crippledness

    Characterised or marked by crippledness; crippled

    • “Fly-bitten—”The girl paused. “You have yet to say cripplesome or crookleg or leaden foot. Why do you not?”
    • "Kind of — cripplesome, is n't if?" said Dorothy rather confusedly. "Cripplesome?" exclaimed the Admiral. "Why, that's no word for it. It's positively decrepitoo-dle" [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cripplesome. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA