stragglesome

stragglesome

English

Etymology

From straggle +‎ -some.

Adjective

stragglesome (comparative more stragglesome, superlative most stragglesome)

1. Characterised or marked by straggling.
   • 2009, Jonathan Miles, Dear American Airlines:

     But movement is scarce here tonight: stragglesome wanderers, looking purposeless and disattached, strolling for the sake of motion.

   • 2016, Kipling, Rudyard, From Sea to Sea:

     Bombay is too green, too pretty, and too stragglesome; and Madras died ever so long ago.

Anagrams

• mortgageless