Meanings
adjectivetindersome (comparative more tindersome, superlative most tindersome)
comparative more tindersome · superlative most tindersome
- rareHaving the characteristics of tinder; (by extension) igniting easily.
It is a windy place, this, and sparks fly easily; and the hut itself is very tindersome, and would easily catch; […]
1872, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Nobody's Fortune, volume 2, page 21 more example
Furthermore, the issue has now taken on the extraneous but tindersome question of Ecuador's pride in standing up to the northern giant.
1971, ISLA, volume 2, page 162
Origin
- Englishtinder
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*somHós
- Proto-Germanic*samaz
- Englishtindersome
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Chicago
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