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tallsome

adj

Etymology

From tall + -some.

  1. derived from *dol-✻
  2. inherited from *talaz✻ — “submissive, pliable, obedient”
  3. inherited from *tæl✻
  4. inherited from tall
  5. suffixed as tallsome — “tall + some”

Definitions

  1. Marked, or characterised by tallness

    • If you were yellow, 'stead of white, / And lived in far Hankow, / Had sat for weeks above the flood / Upon tallsome bough; [...]
    • The little man stood up on Chert's shoulder and doffed his ratskin hat before making a small bow. “Beetledown the Bowman, I hight, tallsome lady. [...]”
    • Someone in the present instance (not to make comparison with those tallsome dudes, you understand) so far out of the loop he doesn't even know what the loop is, nor cares to; [...]

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