battlesome
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
battlesome (comparative more battlesome, superlative most battlesome)
- Characterised or marked by battle(s); quarrelsome
- 2005, C. J. Sansom, Dark Fire:
- He was an ill/favoured young fellow with the scar of some old fight running down his face; the Thames boatmen were ever a battlesome crew.
- 2012, Audrey Le Lièvre, Miss Willmott of Warley Place:
- This letter, however, is Ellen Willmott writing in a style in which she felt much more comfortable: downright, partisan, battlesome and uncaring for the feelings of others.