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Shortsome

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) (of time) amusing; enjoyable Scotland, UK, dialectal

    "[…] and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time "unco shortsome.""

Etymology

From short + -some. For sense development from short to amusing, compare merry.

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