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Threatensome

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterised by threat or threatening. dialectal

    "To be sure, the weather had looked "a bit threatensome," but every self-respecting woman had defied the elements in a much beribboned and befeathered head-gear."

Etymology

From threaten + -some.

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