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comparative more hugsome · superlative most hugsome
- Characterised or marked by hugging
She was a hugsome lass; quiet enough to start in, but awful jumpy when she got going.
1933, Malinda Plunkett Jenkins, Jesse Lilienthal, Gambler's wife2 more examples
Don't you want to save your country, pro patria and ora pro nobis as the old I-talians used to say, and knock the eyes out of all the hugsome hussies with your uniform?
1948, Henry Castor, The SpanglersI understand that one of the hugsome wenches down there is of a mind to have you at the grindstone 'ere long.'
1975, The revenge of Moriarty
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hugsome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hugsome
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