Meanings
comparative more curlsome · superlative most curlsome
- Characterised or marked by curls.
[...] snifflemas daisies and troublesome coughfulness; hibernating curlsome and logful smokefulness.
2010, Susie Groom-Smith, Face at the Window3 more examples
And time again My bluest lady fair Serenely still passed by And felt her goldlike Hair Ah! here a curlsome smile meekly awhile.
1918, Eric Paul Schulze, Vers EgoPhysics of H-eigenwaves in a periodic iris-loaded circular waveguide is generally characterized using a number of the typical power flows. Both the reflectionless flows and the ones contra-directional over the guide's cross-section are included, as well as the curlsome ones and others.
1996, Serge K. Katenev, International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves: Volume 17, Issue 1Well, then take a qu[i]ck gander over at the Surf Channel, an online resource for everything curlsome and frothy.
2007, Erik Olsen, Surf During Lunch
Origin
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