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feeblesome

adj

Etymology

From feeble + -some.

  1. derived from *bʰleh₁-✻
  2. derived from flēbilis
  3. derived from feble
  4. inherited from feble
  5. suffixed as feeblesome — “feeble + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by feebleness

    Characterised or marked by feebleness; weak or faint

    • It ain't no cinch play that this female's deef, neither; which it's allers plain she hears the most feeblesome yelp of that infant, all the way from the dance-hall to the O. K. House, an' that means across the camp complete.
    • Your work is off-color, your liver is wrong— You know it – yet when he butts in, With a little sly jolly, somehow you brace up And scare up a feeblesome grin.

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