broodsome

English

Etymology

From brood +‎ -some.

Adjective

broodsome (comparative more broodsome, superlative most broodsome)

1. Characterised or marked by brooding
   • 1903, Ernest A. Treeton, The Instigator:

     The forest highway was as empty, broodsome, and silent as any spirit grove in a fanciful Deadman's Land; [...]

   • 1908, Gerda Dalliba, An Earth Poem, and Other Poems:

     I con the energy of each and all, I am myself a broodsome cognisance, Watching how this and that by bulb and stem then Leans forth, [...]

   • 2010, Elizabeth Bunce, Elizabeth C. Bunce, A Curse Dark As Gold:

     Impatient, perhaps, for the child to be born, over the next weeks I was more “broodsome” than ever, as Randall put it — some word he'd picked up in the village.