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danksome

adj

Etymology

From dank + -some.

  1. derived from *dankwaz✻ — “dark”
  2. inherited from danke — “wet, damp; dampness, moisture”
  3. suffixed as danksome — “dank + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by dankness

    • “[...] Go where there is moving air, we must—even in these dank-some caves there must be such a place, methinks.”
    • “Were a night like now,” he eventually mumbled. “But late in the year. The forest nigh had gotten danksome and groolier.

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