lustsome
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English lustsum, from Old English *lustsum (attested only in Old English lustsumlīċ (“pleasant, delectable”)), from Proto-Germanic *lustusamaz (“delightful, desirous”), equivalent to lust + -some. Cognate with Middle Low German lustsām (“friendly, lovely”), obsolete Dutch lustzaam (“pleasant, beautiful, charming”), obsolete German lustsam (“pleasing, graceful”).
Adjective
[edit]lustsome (comparative more lustsome, superlative most lustsome)
- Marked or characterised by lust; given to lust; sensual; lustful
- 2012, Sandra Hill, Santa Viking:
- And, of course, many a Viking child would be conceived in the bed furs by Viking men and women who were bored and lustsome.
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- We'd got a feverish hornyin' for each other, see, an' in that druggy skylarkin' aft'noon I was slurpyin' her lustsome mangoes an' moistly fig an' the true is I din't want to go nowhere else, an' Roses din't gather many palila leafs that day neither, nay.
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms suffixed with -some
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English terms with quotations