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grapplesome

adj

Etymology

From grapple + -some.

  1. derived from *gʰrebʰ-✻ — “to gather, rake, grab, seize”
  2. derived from *grabōną✻ — “to gather, rake”
  3. derived from *grabbōn✻
  4. derived from gravan
  5. borrowed from grabben — “to grasp, grab, seize, snatch”
  6. borrowed from grabben
  7. suffixed as grapple — “grab + le”
  8. suffixed as grapplesome — “grapple + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by grappling

    • Tossing off malefactor, mausoleum and monarch with ready dispatch, Bierce soon came hand‐to‐paw with one of the most grapplesome words of his time, the ostensibly innocuous noun monkey.

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