tempersome

/ˈtɛmpɚsəm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"And now that it is so tempersome and cold you are always going out into the nastiness and getting wet or frozen every day."
"Virginia did not recover until early September, when she wrote that she was still cross and “tempersome”."

From temper + -some.

more tempersome (comparative) most tempersome (superlative)

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How do you pronounce tempersome?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɛmpɚsəm/.

What does tempersome mean?

Where does tempersome come from?

From temper + -some.

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