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flattersome

adj

Etymology

From flatter + -some.

  1. derived from *peled-✻ — “moisture, wetness”
  2. derived from *flaþrōną✻ — “to fawn over, flutter”
  3. derived from flaðra — “to fawn on someone, flatter”
  4. derived from *plewd-✻ — “to flow, swim”
  5. inherited from *flutrōną✻ — “to be floating”
  6. inherited from *flotrōn✻
  7. inherited from floterian
  8. inherited from flatteren
  9. suffixed as flattersome — “flatter + some”

Definitions

  1. Marked by flattery

    Marked by flattery; characteristically flattering

    • Kind friends, it would be pretending of me not to let on that I know I am the party referred to by the last speaker — in far too flattersome words.
    • “[...] I ask you, please lift my head a little higher, sir.” “Now, ma'am,” Fox said, “I know enough to hold on to a good thing when I get it.” “Mercy me, Mistah Fox,” Sis' Duck replied. “You are mighty flattersome in your remarks. [...]”
    • This was said with a flattersome German deference, which gave a little added depth to the pleasurable sensations resulting from Dr. Abbott's reactions at finding himself sharing his table with a Star.

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