envysome
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editenvysome (comparative more envysome, superlative most envysome)
- Characterised or marked by envy; envious
- 1913, Helen Gaylord, Luzetta R. Sanders, Cora A. Sanders, The Pokeyville Rally:
- I'm going to show 'em to Molly anyway. Won 't she be envysome?
- 1929, Nature Magazine, volumes 13-14:
- If she can also claim, as the Hackensack creature can, that Charles Livingston Bull, the illustrator, did her portrait, she may take an envysome position on the alley fence at midnight or any other time, and her right will be undisputed.