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lucksome

adj

Etymology

From Middle English luxom, *luksom, equivalent to luck + -some.

  1. inherited from luxom

Definitions

  1. Marked by luck

    Marked by luck; fortunate; characterised as lucky

    • "You are a bucketful of green," observed Frank when I flopped over onto my back and looked up at him standing tall and dripping against the Texas sky. "You're mighty lucksome the river's so low."
    • “Prophet of ill, never yet to me spakest thou thing lucksome”—this was the sentiment of that river when disappointed of Alice.

  2. Blessed.

    • His conscience was clear; his heart was cheered; so, deep inhaling the luxom air, and breathing his pious ejaculations to heaven, he sprung forward to his journey, […]

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