flickersome

English

Etymology

From flicker +‎ -some.

Adjective

flickersome (comparative more flickersome, superlative most flickersome)

1. Characterised or marked by flickering
   • 1920, Greville Macdonald, The North Door:

     And Martha thought these fine ladies were that flickersome, all milk o' human kindness when it wahn't no use, and stones o' granite when takin' trouble might come handy.

   • 2012, Nik Cohn, Need:

     The kemenche had started shrieking like a thing possessed, the oud was going bananas, and now Zenzational Zenaide was zooming to her big finish, “then a crazed madness enters in,” where the maiden flung herself at the bars, and the bars flung her back, and she flung herself again, and again, “flickersome like a firefly she whorls within the crudest cage, O woe! The tender flesh of the pulchrous girl is torn by vile bonds infernal.

   • 2014, Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things:

     Even so, burning days were flickersome.