timidsome
English
Etymology
From timid + -some.
Adjective
timidsome (comparative more timidsome, superlative most timidsome)
- Characterised or marked by timidness; shyful
- 1913, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson, The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes:
- He was a timidsome sort of man and Jinnie had to call sharp 'afore he come out, but come he did, all of a tremble.
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Synonyms
- fearful