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hurtsome

adj

Etymology

From hurt + -some. Compare Scots hurtsome (“hurtful, injurious”).

  1. derived from *herutuz✻
  2. derived from hrútr — “ram (male sheep)”
  3. inherited from *hyrtan✻
  4. derived from *krew-✻ — “to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”
  5. derived from *hūrt✻ — “a battering ram”
  6. derived from hurter
  7. inherited from hurten
  8. suffixed as hurtsome — “hurt + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by hurt

    Characterised or marked by hurt; causing injury or pain; injurious.

    • [...] and namely, for the tedious length of the same, which should weary and be hurtsome peradventure to the King's Majesty, being yet of tender Age, fully to endure and bide out.
    • Such and thousands more are the joysome architectures of nature in contrast to the hurtsome ones of man, but in the last instance they bring us back to the reality that much can be done by combining the forces of nature and those of man.
    • In school, being wrong had a way of cutting my brain, the like way a stem of a fan palm could cut a hand. It was hurtsome.

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