crysome

comparative more crysome · superlative most crysome

1. Characterised by crying or weeping; tearful; lamentful.

   His fancies are often as sweet and as heavenly, as those which "may make a crysome child to smile."

   1821, Charles Kitchell Gardner, The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review

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   In all the preceding years, with all my nieces and nephews, with Tegan herself, when a tiny person got crysome, I handed them back to the person responsible for them, secure in the knowledge that nothing I could do would appease them so I didn't have to try.

   2008, Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

   Synonyms: cryey, sobful, teary, cryey, lachrymate, lachrymose, larmoyant, maudlin