gripsome
English
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editgripsome (comparative more gripsome, superlative most gripsome)
- (rare or dialectal) Characterised or marked by gripping.
- 1837, Charles White, The Married Unmarried, volume 1, page 95:
- […] it's quite small, swipes like, and a'n't wholesome for us poor old bodies; it's quite gripsome like; […]
- 1900, Prescott Hartford Belknap, The Canalero, the Trooper, page 35:
- (O God! that I, of all dolts, Had a forty-four gripsome Colt's!)
- 2015, Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions:
- Not so big, mayhap, but fierce beyond measure, cunning, and gripsome o'life.