coolsome
English
Etymology
From cool + -some.
Adjective
coolsome (comparative more coolsome, superlative most coolsome)
- Characterised or marked by coolness.
- 1869, John Greville Fennell, The Rail and the Rod, Or, Tourist-angler's Guide to Waters and Quarters Thirty Miles Around London:
- Ferny dells; wide uplands, dappled with rays of golden light; intense depths of coolsome shadowy boughs heavy with leafiness, and ringing with music; stately “pillared aisles” of glorious trees, which in the olden time lent life and vigour to the scene […]
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- I din't say yay, I said, coolsome'n'stony, Grazin' goats ain't int'restin' for folks with so much Smart as you.
- 2014, Bruce Thorstad, Deadwood Dick and the Code of the West:
- Well, by morning the little girl was coolsome, but plumb wore down to nothing.
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