funsome

funsome

English

Alternative forms

• fun-some

Etymology

From fun +‎ -some.

Adjective

funsome (comparative more funsome, superlative most funsome)

1. Marked by fun; enjoyable; amusing; entertaining
   • 2003, Andre Stein, ‎Peter Samu, Father's Milk:

     Nothing is a greater turn-on for Mom than seeing her funsome leading man enjoying her offspring.

   • 2014, Pepper Winters, Destroyed:

     He'd asked for more hookers, and I slapped him playfully. As much as I didn't want to admit—I liked Oscar. He'd called me a whore and grabbed my boob, but beneath the brash exterior lurked a fun-some surfer whose blue eyes caused one or two wings of attraction in my stomach.

   • 2015, Peter Gough, Sounds of the New Deal:

     The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that humor was aplenty “in the unaffectedly joyous antics of [the] typical funsome Negro,” the production giving vent to “their natural flair for 'play actin' and their natural love of idolization.”