flailsome

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adjective

Characteristic of a flail, or characterised by flailing

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectiveflailsome (comparative more flailsome, superlative most flailsome)

comparative more flailsome · superlative most flailsome

  1. Characteristic of a flail, or characterised by flailing

    Greeny-crackly. Fever-trees. Scalesome. Flailsome. Tusky. I was eight reading those words; I remember.

    2011, Beth Kephart, You Are My Only
    2 more examples

    A minister of scholarly achievement, as sensitive to social influences as litmus paper to an agent, decided that his town and countryside had had enough of the slot machine racket and all its flailsome appendages.

    1940, Winfred Ernest Garrison, Faith of the Free

    This features a cunning blend of pop vocal harmonic construction and flailsome, fringe-rock accompaniment.

    1990, Spin, volume 5, number 12

Origin

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Chicago

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