English edit

Etymology edit

From wire +‎ -some.

Adjective edit

wiresome (comparative more wiresome, superlative most wiresome)

  1. Characterised or marked by wire or wires; wiry.
    • 1857, Friends' Intelligencer, volume 13:
      By forest fountains hast thou seen / The wiresome, fairy sight, / Where banks are clad in mosses green, / Some dark, and some so bright?
    • 1987, Frank Luger, Herzenblut:
      I was hiresome, hick and hasteful / You were wiresome, wick and wasteful [...]