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scarisome

adj

Etymology

From scary + -some.

  1. derived from *(s)ker-✻ — “to swing, jump, move”
  2. derived from *skirzijaną✻ — “to shoo, scare off”
  3. derived from skirra — “to frighten; to shrink away from, shun; to prevent, avert”
  4. inherited from scaren
  5. formed as scary — “scare + -y”
  6. suffixed as scarisome — “scary + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by scariness

    Characterised or marked by scariness; frightening

    • "It too scarisome to you? You afraid they'll poison Paw-paw's dogs, too?"
    • In any case, I couldn't wait any longer to bring up the important and frankly quite scarisome topic which was playing doolally weirdo things with my mind, so I Took The Plunge: 'Mu-um?'
    • I mean, 'magine a scarysome bastard came to any ofye asking who the one they call Parrot is, ye might point at me and ask Why them interested and he might say I stole from him or burned his ship or in— sulted his missus. What would ye do?

The neighborhood

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