Bellowsome
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Characterised or marked by bellowing
"Such indiscriminating stuff is difficult to treat as it deserves, because it is such a mixture of truth and nonsense (Miss Rehan, for instance, is clever in Katharine and boisterously bellowsome in Julia), but it may serve to emphasize the necessity of providing somewhere in newspaper offices for the education of critics in the fundamentals of the arts they profess to understand."
Example
More examples"Such indiscriminating stuff is difficult to treat as it deserves, because it is such a mixture of truth and nonsense (Miss Rehan, for instance, is clever in Katharine and boisterously bellowsome in Julia), but it may serve to emphasize the necessity of providing somewhere in newspaper offices for the education of critics in the fundamentals of the arts they profess to understand."
Etymology
From bellow + -some.
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