quicksome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She helped Sussy with dairyin' an' Ma with twinin'n'spinnin' an' Jonas took her bird-eggin' an' she list'ned to Catkin's yippin' 'bout school'ry an' she fetched water'n'chopped wood an' she was a quicksome learner."
- "Yea, and if thou wilt also eat of the good herb thy dear mother put before thee at meat, thou also shalt be as blithesome and quicksome as thy little Bessie."
- "“Bigman,” I said when he'd thrice emptied his cup, “winter's coming on quicksome. It weighs on a man, not having any company in the long nights, wouldn't you say, sir?”"
Etymology
From quick + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more quicksome (comparative)
most quicksome (superlative)