envysome

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adjective

Characterised or marked by envy; envious.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveenvysome (comparative more envysome, superlative most envysome)

comparative more envysome · superlative most envysome · alternative envisome

  1. Characterised or marked by envy; envious.

    I'm going to show 'em to Molly anyway. Won 't she be envysome?

    1913, Helen Gaylord, Luzetta R. Sanders, Cora A. Sanders, The Pokeyville Rally
    1 more example

    If she can also claim, as the Hackensack creature can, that Charles Livingston Bull, the illustrator, did her portrait, she may take an envysome position on the alley fence at midnight or any other time, and her right will be undisputed.

    1929, Nature Magazine, volumes 13-14

Origin

  1. Old Frenchenvie
  2. Middle Englishenvie
  3. Englishenvy
  4. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*somHós
  6. Proto-Germanic*samaz
  7. Englishenvysome

From envy + -some.

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Chicago

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