dangersome
English
Etymology
From danger + -some.
Adjective
dangersome (comparative more dangersome, superlative most dangersome)
- Characterised or marked by danger; dangerous
- 2008, Hamlin Garland, Her Mountain Lover:
- All that was familiar and trustworthy was back there, where the sun was sinking. To the east lay the unimaginable, the dangerous, and the wearisome; and a feeling of timidity came over his bold heart: this water world was dangersome.
- 2011, Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne:
- “I'm just sayin' she's more dangersome than you think.” Han's head came up in surprise.
- 2012, Hesba Stretton, Fern's Hollow:
- I'll trust you, sir; but my work is dangersome, and please God I should get killed, will you do the same for Martha and little Nan?
- 2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Hanging Judge:
- Going after him now, with the train slowed down and everyone standing up to get off, would be a dangersome waste of time.
- 2012, Khalid Patel, Hollow Shotguns:
- “Fuck. Was. That?” “P-Prolly j-jus' a wolf” stuttered Zeth, before remembering the animal may be demonic, before further remembering even without possession wolves were dangersome.
- 2015, Johnny Boggs, South by Southwest: A Western Story:
- “Just plain vile. I felt I should have been fighting, not doing road work. I ain't no logger. And dangersome, too, that work was. I seen one man from the 16th nigh chop his foot off when he mis-swung his axe. Couple others got killed when them big pines fell on them.
- 2016, Karen Cushman, Grayling's Song:
- “Roots. Bark. Horror. This sounds dangersome,” said Desdemona Cork as she helped herself to a pork rib. “I like it not and will have no part of it.”
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