Meanings
comparative more lustsome · superlative most lustsome
- Marked or characterised by lust; given to lust; sensual; lustful
And, of course, many a Viking child would be conceived in the bed furs by Viking men and women who were bored and lustsome.
2012, Sandra Hill, Santa Viking1 more example
We'd got a feverish hornyin' for each other, see, an' in that druggy skylarkin' aft'noon I was slurpyin' her lustsome mangoes an' moistly fig an' the true is I din't want to go nowhere else, an' Roses din't gather many palila leafs that day neither, nay.
2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*lustusamaz“delightful, desirous”
- Old English*lustsum
- Middle Englishlustsum
- Englishlustsome
From Middle English lustsum, from Old English *lustsum (attested only in Old English lustsumlīċ (“pleasant, delectable”)), from Proto-Germanic *lustusamaz (“delightful, desirous”), equivalent to lust + -some. Cognate with Middle Low German lustsām (“friendly, lovely”), obsolete Dutch lustzaam (“pleasant, beautiful, charming”), obsolete German lustsam (“pleasing, graceful”).
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