Loonsome

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    lonesome pronunciation-spelling

    "There they sat, with their "heads bowed down like the loonsome bulrush," as Uncle Billy poetically expressed it, weeping over their sins, as he thought, but the wicked creatures were laughing."

  2. 2
    Characteristic of a loon or marked by looniness

    "Hi everyone, Had a lovlerley ubberley weekend-filled with much loonsome dancing and merriment."

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"There they sat, with their "heads bowed down like the loonsome bulrush," as Uncle Billy poetically expressed it, weeping over their sins, as he thought, but the wicked creatures were laughing."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Variant of lonesome.

Etymology 2

From loon + -some.

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