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hugsome

adj

Etymology

From hug + -some.

  1. derived from *hugiz✻ — “mind, thought, sense”
  2. derived from hugga — “to comfort, console”
  3. suffixed as hugsome — “hug + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by hugging

    • She was a hugsome lass; quiet enough to start in, but awful jumpy when she got going.
    • Don't you want to save your country, pro patria and ora pro nobis as the old I-talians used to say, and knock the eyes out of all the hugsome hussies with your uniform?
    • I understand that one of the hugsome wenches down there is of a mind to have you at the grindstone 'ere long.'

The neighborhood

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