longsome

American  

[lawng-suhm, long-] / ˈlɔŋ səm, ˈlɒŋ- /

adjective

1. tiresomely long; so protracted as to weary or cause boredom.

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Other Word Forms

• longsomeness
  noun
• longsomely
  adverb

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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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Example Sentences

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longsome

If the conjunctive Hamzah is preceded by a quiescent letter, this takes generally Kasrah: "Tálat al-Laylah," the night was longsome, would become Tálati 'l-Laylah.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

This long and somewhat longsome history is by another pen, which is distinguished from the ordinary text by constant attempts at fine writing, patches of Saj'a or prose-rhyme and profuse poetry, mostly doggerel.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

She replied, "Thou makest longsome the questioning anent an egg worth a mite."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

“At the table a game of chess to play, Will help to beguile the longsome day.”

From Finnish Arts or Sir Thor and Damsel Thure, a Ballad by George Henry Borrow

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