ficklesome

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adjective

Characterised or marked by fickleness.

OriginProto-Germanic *samaz ← Proto-Indo-European *somHós ← English fickle →
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Meanings

adjectiveficklesome (comparative more ficklesome, superlative most ficklesome)

comparative more ficklesome · superlative most ficklesome

  1. Characterised or marked by fickleness.

    "Cut, then stain with blossom juice from Blood-of-Christ bush. Sew pieces together with rose thorn needle. Hammer heel into sole with hawthorn nails. Polish with twelve drops of faery spit." 'Twas a ficklesome job, and she'd already broken two fingernails.

    2001, Mary E. Lyons, Knockabeg

Origin

  1. Englishfickle
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*somHós
  4. Proto-Germanic*samaz
  5. Englishficklesome

From fickle + -some.

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Chicago

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