quakesome

quakesome

English

Etymology

From quake +‎ -some.

Adjective

quakesome (comparative more quakesome, superlative most quakesome)

1. Characterised or marked by quaking
   • 1883, Clement Scott, ‎Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, ‎Charles Eglington, The Theatre - Volume 11:

     At street corners after dark in the West End, and up courts in the City, may be heard the hoarse cornet à piston, the quakesome flute, and eke the twanging harp, in trinity of dissonance; [...]

   • 2010, Jeffery Farnol, ‎F. Vaux Wilson, Our Admirable Betty:

     'Ere 's me, look 'ee, trimming them borders, Sergeant, so 'appy-'earted as any bird, and all at once I falls to coldsome, quakesome shivers, my 'eart jumps into my jaws, my knees knocks an' trembles horrorsome-like, an' I sweats — "