longsome
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of longsome
before 900; Middle English, Old English longsum, langsum. See long 1, -some 1
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My second education must have been almost as much of a business as my first had been, only rather less longsome.
From Recalled to Life by Grant Allen
Where woonce along the sky o' blue The zun went roun' his longsome bow, An' brighten'd, to my soul, the view About our little farm below.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
O'er grisly the strife was, So loathly and longsome.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
Under such circumstances it cannot well be other than longsome and monotonous reading.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
O night, thou art longsome for love-sick sprite * Complaining of Love and its ecstacy: Thou makest him wakeful, who burns with fire * Of a love, like the live coal's ardency.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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