slowsome

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1. Typified by slowness; characteristically slow

   As I was travellin' through Lecale, I heered from a beggar a slowsome tale.

   1948, David Marcus, Poetry Ireland - Issues 1-19

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   Sounds like a quick death you may think, but I done it sev'ral times an' s'prisin' slowsome it is, b'lief me.

   2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN

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1. nonstandardIn a characteristically slow or slowsome manner; slowly

   Moose smiled, slowsome.

   1992, Stephen Dueweke, Playing Soldiers in the Dark

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   Don't bile fast but jes' let yo' pot simper along slowsome.

   2013, Frederick Douglass Opie, Hog and Hominy