lucksome
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English luxom, *luksom, equivalent to luck + -some.
Adjective
[edit]lucksome (comparative more lucksome, superlative most lucksome)
- Marked by luck; fortunate; characterised as lucky
- 2010, Loren D. Estleman, Billy Gashade:
- "You are a bucketful of green," observed Frank when I flopped over onto my back and looked up at him standing tall and dripping against the Texas sky. "You're mighty lucksome the river's so low."
- 2016, Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Alice Lorraine:
- “Prophet of ill, never yet to me spakest thou thing lucksome”—this was the sentiment of that river when disappointed of Alice.
- Blessed.
- 1836, Mason Locke Weems, The Life of William Penn, page 50:
- His conscience was clear; his heart was cheered; so, deep inhaling the luxom air, and breathing his pious ejaculations to heaven, he sprung forward to his journey, […]