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hauntsome

adj

Etymology

From haunt + -some.

  1. derived from *ḱóymos✻
  2. derived from *haimaz✻
  3. derived from *haimatjaną✻
  4. derived from hāmettan
  5. derived from heimta
  6. derived from hanter — “to go back home, frequent”
  7. derived from hanter
  8. inherited from haunten
  9. suffixed as hauntsome — “haunt + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by haunting

    • The sudden spasm of grief that swept her little heart welled to her hauntsome eyes. She struggled valiantly, but she could withstand its oncoming no longer. She burst into a torrent of tears.
    • The Indians were making their third visit of the season to the Polo Grounds, the cavernous arena set beneath Coogan's Bluff on the fringe of New York's hauntsome Harlem.

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