Meanings
adjectivetimbersome (comparative more timbersome, superlative most timbersome)
comparative more timbersome · superlative most timbersome
- obsoleteObsolete form of timorsome.
“Well,” continued the other, “the squire ordered him to be taken in; for he is a timbersome man everybody knows, and was afraid of drawing himself into a scrape […]
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
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