gritsome

English

Etymology

From grit +‎ -some.

Adjective

gritsome (comparative more gritsome, superlative most gritsome)

1. Characterised or marked by grit (all senses); gritty
   • 1961, John Merton Patrick, Buried astronomy:

     And noumena, transcending Earth, / The gritsome round of rocks [...]

   • 1973, New York Magazine, volume 6, number 38:

     He muflles hometward veiny eyed / With gritsome mudcrumped bag of sleep.

   • 2011, Mark Wilshin, Raising Arkansas:

     She may be gritsome enough to shoot her arch nemesis Tom Chaney, played by a desperately underused Josh Brolin, twice, but she promptly falls down a well and has to be rescued by her two dads.

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