bitesome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by biting
adj
Having a bite to it; piquant.
Example Sentences
- ""Flies very bitesome.""
- "In the first place, a genuine good cider flip could never be made until Boreas came with "bitesome breezes and blew- some blastesses" and froze the barrel of cider in the garret."
- "One of the boys runs into a bitesome boxer dog, then tracks down its owner in church and demands that justice be done for his torn trouser leg."
- "It was a refined mouth, accustomed to the better things in life. With it he sorted out the few poisonous fungi from the good ones, and enjoyed fallen fruit, carrion, tubers, berries, sprouted nuts, and the bitesome green balled fists of ferns just up."
- "[…] and, as for the other inconveniences, I remember that a Chinese woman who was just beginning to speak English said to her teacher: “Ma'am, in summer the inns are very bitesome. […]”"
- "The inn was about the dirtiest that I had been in for many a long day. It was rather 'bitesome' also, and under such conditions one cannot well sleep."
Etymology
From bite + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more bitesome (comparative)
most bitesome (superlative)