Sitsome

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to, apt to, prone to, or desirous to be seated or sitting; sedentary; stationary.

    ""You'll kindly excuse me if I don't raise, honourable and reverend sir; after dinner, and being stout, a body feels sitsome, you know," said the lady, putting out a fat and jewel-laden hand to her visitor."

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sedentary

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""You'll kindly excuse me if I don't raise, honourable and reverend sir; after dinner, and being stout, a body feels sitsome, you know," said the lady, putting out a fat and jewel-laden hand to her visitor."

Etymology

From sit + -some. Compare German sittsam (“decent, demure, prudish”), Swedish sedesam (“decent, modest, prim”). Compare setsome.

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