loonsome

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   lonesome

   • There they sat, with their "heads bowed down like the loonsome bulrush," as Uncle Billy poetically expressed it, weeping over their sins, as he thought, but the wicked creatures were laughing.
   • "Jack he ha' gart ta be about his wark, an' Aggie hare ha' gart har chillern ta see arter, an' sometimes I fare sa loonsome, hare, all alooan . . . wi' Gord."
   • Oh, most o' Pa's yarnin's was jus' musey duck fartin' an'in his loonsome old age he even b'liefed Meronym the Prescient was his presh b'loved Sonmi, yay, he 'sisted it, he said he knowed it all by birthmarks an' comets'n'all.
2. 2

   Characteristic of a loon or marked by looniness

   • Hi everyone, Had a lovlerley ubberley weekend-filled with much loonsome dancing and merriment.
   • Only one of them is crazy / Loonsome moontide / Drifts me like a paperboat [...]
   • Of course, Chisum didn’t read what he advocated before he advocated it (what would you expect), but his response when he finally read it wasn’t much less loonsome.

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