tremblesome

English

Alternative forms

• tremble-some

Etymology

From tremble +‎ -some.

Adjective

tremblesome (comparative more tremblesome, superlative most tremblesome)

1. Characterised or marked by trembling
   • 2014, Stephen Jones, Fearie Tales:

     She let some of the tension out of her body, starting to feel a bit tremblesome, the shock of the attack, the weight of her weapons.

   • 2014, Brian Paul Bach, Busted Boom:

     The resultant distress in his lower tract was so volcanic and draining that his tremblesome progression out of the dry, litter-chipped bushes which saw his evacuata was slower and less hopeful than the mechanics that powered the 87 year old [...]

   • 2016, Bill Reed, Lankan 1001 Nights book 1:

     To make matters worse to the unseen clogging-up-of-things coming on – just as the days of Dominic's upliftment to feet-up Don status bore on her old Dad was given to standing on the hour and shouting in his most tremble-some voice of new augury, going: [...]

Adverb

tremblesome (comparative more tremblesome, superlative most tremblesome)

1. (nonstandard) In a tremblesome manner
   • 2011, Ian Watson, The Fallen Moon: Mana - Book 2:

     Juke was scrutinizing the tufty rugs on the floor as if the pointy head bowed in camouflage, tiny animal might be crouching tremblesome, front paws prayerfully clasped together like foetal hands.