lengthsome

adj

Etymology

From length + -some.

  1. inherited from *langiþō
  2. inherited from *langiþu
  3. inherited from lengþ
  4. inherited from lengthe
  5. suffixed as lengthsome — “length + some

Definitions

  1. Of significant length

    Of significant length; long; lengthy.

    • […] and of course I planned a number of schemes for making it, when the time should come, duly effective and elegant. I pined to learn something of her during the lengthsome days of absence.

The neighborhood

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