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curlsome

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English

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Etymology

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From curl +‎ -some.

Adjective

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curlsome (comparative more curlsome, superlative most curlsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by curls
    • 1918, Eric Paul Schulze, Vers Ego:
      And time again My bluest lady fair Serenely still passed by And felt her goldlike Hair Ah! here a curlsome smile meekly awhile.
    • 1996, Serge K. Katenev, International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves: Volume 17, Issue 1:
      Physics of H-eigenwaves in a periodic iris-loaded circular waveguide is generally characterized using a number of the typical power flows. Both the reflectionless flows and the ones contra-directional over the guide's cross-section are included, as well as the curlsome ones and others.
    • 2007, Erik Olsen, Surf During Lunch:
      Well, then take a qu[i]ck gander over at the Surf Channel, an online resource for everything curlsome and frothy.
    • 2010, Susie Groom-Smith, Face at the Window:
      [...] snifflemas daisies and troublesome coughfulness; hibernating curlsome and logful smokefulness.