dirtsome
English
Etymology
From dirt + -some.
Adjective
dirtsome (comparative more dirtsome, superlative most dirtsome)
- Marked by dirtiness or by being dirty
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- Guilt 'cos I always s'vived an' 'scaped despite my dirtsome'n'stony soul.
- 2009, Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois, The Dragon Book:
- 'Are you truly certain you are well, Princess'? quoth he. 'Because you look a bit battered and dirtsome, [...]'
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Adverb
dirtsome (comparative more dirtsome, superlative most dirtsome)
- (nonstandard, regional) very; extremely; awfully
- 2016, Ruth Fnnegan, Poems from the Black Inked Pearl 2:
- Dear nutmeg grown for me and mine midst tree and mace and tropic's space [e]quatorial shine., with brown and black in spice-isles sown you're dirtsome cheap sold in hea[p]s, then heapen pile, but dear to me.
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Anagrams
- Tidmores, distomer, mortised, temorids