floatsome

English

Etymology 1

See flotsam.

Noun

floatsome (uncountable)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of flotsam
   • 2010, Bill Casselman, Where a Dobdob Meets a Dikdik:

     Flotsam is “floatsome,” cargo or wreckage found floating on the surface of the ocean or goods seen to float up from the hull of a wrecked ship.

Etymology 2

From float +‎ -some.

Adjective

floatsome (comparative more floatsome, superlative most floatsome)

1. (rare, poetic or nonstandard) Characterised or marked by floating; (by extension) temporary; transitory
   • 2002, D.V. Gundappa, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     The President that we have in King's place, is just a figurehead without power, the so called minister is floatsome and he (a few exceptions) waits for crumbs to fall from the party leadership. He has no permanency of tenure in government.

   • 2012, Garrison Clifford Gibson, Temporal Cross Currents:

     Currents and awesome wind with floatsome foam and dreg clinging dog paddle through mountainous seas toward safety of shore.

Anagrams

• fool's mate, footmeals