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floatsome

noun

Etymology

From float + -some.

  1. derived from *plewd-✻
  2. inherited from *flutōną✻ — “to float”
  3. inherited from *flotōn✻
  4. inherited from flotian — “to float”
  5. inherited from floten
  6. suffixed as floatsome — “float + some”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of flotsam.

    • Flotsam is “floatsome,” cargo or wreckage found floating on the surface of the ocean or goods seen to float up from the hull of a wrecked ship.

  2. Characterised or marked by floating

    Characterised or marked by floating; (by extension) temporary; transitory

    • The President that we have in King's place, is just a figurehead without power, the so called minister is floatsome and he (a few exceptions) waits for crumbs to fall from the party leadership. He has no permanency of tenure in government.
    • Currents and awesome wind with floatsome foam and dreg clinging dog paddle through mountainous seas toward safety of shore.

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