cradlesome

English

Etymology

From cradle +‎ -some.

Adjective

cradlesome (comparative more cradlesome, superlative most cradlesome)

1. Characterised or marked by cradling
   • 1947, Crow Field, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     But I had been pushed across the boundary by I didn't know what hands, whether streaked or cradlesome or hooflike, and I could not turn around.

   • 1956, The Marble Orchard:

     No one, of course, has seen her, and Ned and Beetie are about to experience the hammocking, cradlesome shock that is the beginning of despair.

   • 1975, North Carolina Quarterly - Volumes 27-28:

     And Geneva-Honey Crowningburg — she of the cradlesome escutcheon, the electric wool — she looms in a paper-shaded brokeneye and waves "bye- bye" (which is dumb since her man is plainly coming home, not going away).