Lucksome
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Marked by luck; fortunate; characterised as lucky
""You are a bucketful of green," observed Frank when I flopped over onto my back and looked up at him standing tall and dripping against the Texas sky. "You're mighty lucksome the river's so low.""
- 2 Blessed.
"His conscience was clear; his heart was cheered; so, deep inhaling the luxom air, and breathing his pious ejaculations to heaven, he sprung forward to his journey, […]"
Example
More examples""You are a bucketful of green," observed Frank when I flopped over onto my back and looked up at him standing tall and dripping against the Texas sky. "You're mighty lucksome the river's so low.""
Etymology
From Middle English luxom, *luksom, equivalent to luck + -some.
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