gritsome

adj

Etymology

From grit + -some.

  1. inherited from *greutą
  2. inherited from *greut
  3. inherited from greot
  4. inherited from grete
  5. suffixed as gritsome — “grit + some

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by grit (all senses)

    Characterised or marked by grit (all senses); gritty

    • And noumena, transcending Earth, / The gritsome round of rocks [...]
    • He muflles hometward veiny eyed / With gritsome mudcrumped bag of sleep.
    • She may be gritsome enough to shoot her arch nemesis Tom Chaney, played by a desperately underused Josh Brolin, twice, but she promptly falls down a well and has to be rescued by her two dads.

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