lingersome
English
Etymology
From linger + -some.
Adjective
lingersome (comparative more lingersome, superlative most lingersome)
- Characterised or marked by lingering
- 2000, Merrill Gilfillan, Grasshopper Falls:
- Two days earlier he had received a visitor from Atlanta, Georgia, and it was still with him in a lingersome way, like smoke in your hair or gasoline on your hands.
- 2002, Bruce Olds, Bucking the Tiger:
- A lingersome last glance downtrack for the self-absented Major.
- 2000, Merrill Gilfillan, Grasshopper Falls:
Anagrams
- mongrelise