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flickersome

adj

Etymology

From flicker + -some.

  1. inherited from *flikurōn✻
  2. inherited from flicerian
  3. inherited from flikeren — “to flutter”
  4. suffixed as flickersome — “flicker + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by flickering

    • And Martha thought these fine ladies were that flickersome, all milk o' human kindness when it wahn't no use, and stones o' granite when takin' trouble might come handy.
    • Even so, burning days were flickersome.

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