tendsome

comparative more tendsome · superlative most tendsome

1. rareCharacterised by needing much tending, attention, or care.

   And Ephraim praised the children volubly. "Never woz children thet woz so little tendsome," said he, with pride.

   1884, Edward Everett Hale, The Fortunes of Rachel, page 195

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   Owing to the fact that Nancy Slocumb had been snubbed when she advised oiling Stepan at three weeks, since he seemed a tendsome child, she had been two years trying to copy the Pinkney plan.

   1916, Edith Miniter, Our Natupski Neighbors, page 92