gripsome

comparative more gripsome · superlative most gripsome

1. dialectalrareCharacterised or marked by gripping.

   (O God! that I, of all dolts, Had a forty-four gripsome Colt's!)

   1900, Prescott Hartford Belknap, The Canalero, the Trooper, page 35

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   […] it's quite small, swipes like, and a'n't wholesome for us poor old bodies; it's quite gripsome like; […]

   1837, Charles White, The Married Unmarried, volume 1, page 95

   Not so big, mayhap, but fierce beyond measure, cunning, and gripsome o'life.

   2015, Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions