broodsome
English
Etymology
From brood + -some.
Adjective
broodsome (comparative more broodsome, superlative most broodsome)
- Characterised or marked by brooding
- 1903, Ernest A. Treeton, The Instigator:
- The forest highway was as empty, broodsome, and silent as any spirit grove in a fanciful Deadman's Land; [...]
- 1908, Gerda Dalliba, An Earth Poem, and Other Poems:
- I con the energy of each and all, I am myself a broodsome cognisance, Watching how this and that by bulb and stem then Leans forth, [...]
- 2010, Elizabeth Bunce, Elizabeth C. Bunce, A Curse Dark As Gold:
- Impatient, perhaps, for the child to be born, over the next weeks I was more “broodsome” than ever, as Randall put it — some word he'd picked up in the village.
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