profitsome
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profitsome (comparative more profitsome, superlative most profitsome)
- (informal, regional) Characterised or marked by profit
- 1996, James Acheson, Romana Huk, Contemporary British Poetry:
- [...] to put my soap / in the slimming industry's / profitsome spoke
- 2001, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Lady Bandit:
- “Your sister says she tried to put you through college,” Longarm replied as they headed on down the sandstone sidewalk, deserted like the most of the business district at that hour, save for an island of bright lights every quarter mile or so, where a saloon, a tobacco shop, or chili parlor still found it profitsome to stay open after quitting time.
- 2003, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Deadly Dead Man:
- So unless you could wrangle a government beef contract to supply nearby army posts or Indian agencies, and that had been the one true motive for the infamous Lincoln County War, you had to breed and sell stock more profitsome than beef on the hoof.
- 2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Deadly Flood:
- Earp nodded, then opined, “You'd have to drill in crops more profitsome than barley to make a go of it with hired water. It just don't pay to irrigate grain and grazing land. [...]”