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shortsome

adj

Etymology

From short + -some. For sense development from short to amusing, compare merry.

  1. inherited from *(s)ker-✻
  2. inherited from *skurtaz✻ — “short”
  3. inherited from *skurt✻
  4. inherited from sċeort
  5. inherited from schort
  6. suffixed as shortsome — “short + some”

Definitions

  1. Marked, or characterised by shortness

    Marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) (of time) amusing; enjoyable

    • […] and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time "unco shortsome."
    • There's seven maries in your bower, / There's seven o them and three, / And I'll send them to good greenwood, / For flowers to shortsome thee.
    • 'Twould be a dreary, lonely spring at Carlyle without shortsome Jane to add color to her days.

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