shortsome

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1. ScotlandUKdialectalMarked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) (of time) amusing; enjoyable

   'Twould be a dreary, lonely spring at Carlyle without shortsome Jane to add color to her days.

   2009, Liz Curtis Higgs, Fair Is the Rose

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   […] and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time "unco shortsome."

   1827, Thomas Dibdin, The Reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin

   There's seven maries in your bower, / There's seven o them and three, / And I'll send them to good greenwood, / For flowers to shortsome thee.

   1886, F. J. Child, The Brown Robin