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flailsome

adj

Etymology

From flail + -some.

  1. derived from *bʰlag-✻
  2. derived from flagellum — “winnowing tool, thresher”
  3. derived from *-ilaz✻
  4. derived from *pleh₂k-✻ — “to beat, hit, strike; weep”
  5. derived from *flag-✻
  6. derived from *flagilaz✻ — “whip”
  7. inherited from *flagil✻
  8. inherited from fligel
  9. inherited from flayle
  10. suffixed as flailsome — “flail + some”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of a flail, or characterised by flailing

    • A minister of scholarly achievement, as sensitive to social influences as litmus paper to an agent, decided that his town and countryside had had enough of the slot machine racket and all its flailsome appendages.
    • This features a cunning blend of pop vocal harmonic construction and flailsome, fringe-rock accompaniment.
    • Greeny-crackly. Fever-trees. Scalesome. Flailsome. Tusky. I was eight reading those words; I remember.

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