broilsome

comparative more broilsome · superlative most broilsome · alternative broil-some

1. Marked by broiling or brawling; contentious; rowdy.

   If a man was broil-some, he was likely to go whole-hog about it, utilizing tire irons and stones and teeth.

   2016, John Graves, Hard Scrabble

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   We think of broilsome Norman lords — and so they were — but in their broilsomeness and insecurity they sought, and even abided by, tenure decisions lent legitimacy by the elevation to the inheritance of one of a finite number of 'rightful' heirs.

   1981, Reginald Allen Brown, Proceedings of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies: 1980. III