gritsome

comparative more gritsome · superlative most gritsome

1. Characterised or marked by grit (all senses); gritty

   And noumena, transcending Earth, / The gritsome round of rocks [...]

   1961, John Merton Patrick, Buried astronomy

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   He muflles hometward veiny eyed / With gritsome mudcrumped bag of sleep.

   1973, New York Magazine, volume 6, number 38

   She may be gritsome enough to shoot her arch nemesis Tom Chaney, played by a desperately underused Josh Brolin, twice, but she promptly falls down a well and has to be rescued by her two dads.

   2011, Mark Wilshin, Raising Arkansas