Meanings
floatsome1
- alternativedialectaluncountableAlternative form of flotsam.
Flotsam is “floatsome,” cargo or wreckage found floating on the surface of the ocean or goods seen to float up from the hull of a wrecked ship.
2010, Bill Casselman, Where a Dobdob Meets a Dikdik
floatsome2
comparative more floatsome · superlative most floatsome
- nonstandardpoeticrareCharacterised or marked by floating; (by extension) temporary; transitory
Currents and awesome wind with floatsome foam and dreg clinging dog paddle through mountainous seas toward safety of shore.
2012, Garrison Clifford Gibson, Temporal Cross Currents1 more example
The President that we have in King's place, is just a figurehead without power, the so called minister is floatsome and he (a few exceptions) waits for crumbs to fall from the party leadership. He has no permanency of tenure in government.
2002, D.V. Gundappa, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
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floatsome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/floatsome
“floatsome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/floatsome. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “floatsome,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/floatsome.
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