swearsome
English
Etymology
From swear + -some.
Adjective
swearsome (comparative more swearsome, superlative most swearsome)
- Characterised or marked by swearing
- 1918, Ethel Turner, Bertram Stevens, The Australian Soldiers' Gift Book:
- He must have been a rather swearsome hero while the flies and dust lasted.
- 1967, Thomas Welsby, Andrew Kilpatrick Thomson, The Collected Works of Thomas Welsby - Volume 1:
- Depth not too great — say 6 to 10 fathoms — and bottom a swearsome one.
- 1918, Ethel Turner, Bertram Stevens, The Australian Soldiers' Gift Book: