breathsome

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adjective

Characteristic of breath or breathing; breathy.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivebreathsome (comparative more breathsome, superlative most breathsome)

comparative more breathsome · superlative most breathsome

  1. Characteristic of breath or breathing; breathy.

    To feel sweet gales around thee blow, / Yet know that there be some who ne'er / Shall feel again that breathsome air, / Joyful or sad; [...]

    1869, Eleanora Louisa Hervey, Our Legends and Lives
    1 more example

    I feel it now, the breathsome gale / That swayed and kissed the almond flowers / Which flushed that sunny nook of ground, / By cedars flanked, with mountains round.

    1868, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, London Society - Volume 11; Volume 13

Origin

  1. Englishbreath
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*somHós
  4. Proto-Germanic*samaz
  5. Englishbreathsome

From breath + -some.

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