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manysome

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English

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Etymology 1

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From many +‎ -some.

Adjective

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manysome (comparative more manysome, superlative most manysome)

  1. (rare, dialectal) Characterised or marked by abundance; plentiful, abundant; multiple.
    • 1880, William Barnes, An Outline of Rede-craft (logic): With English Wording, page 15:
      One end manysome and the other onesome, as 'John and Alfred―are wise,' 'John―is wise and good.'
    • 1906, Frank Kraft, The American Physician, volume 32, page 283:
      He is as young and spry and chipper to-day as he was then, notwithstanding all the manysome burdens and trials that were placed upon him during the ensuing years.
    • 2009, Horst W. Doelle, J. Stefan Rokem, Marin Berovic, Fundamentals in Biotechnology:
      In contrast to non-viral vectors, viral vectors have caused manysome safety concerns but are also usually much more efficient in transducing genetic material in to the target cells.
    • 2015, Sara Taylor, The Shore:
      "Oysters be manysome this year," he began, and we started in to talking in the slow weaving way men have, of this and that and nothing much.
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Etymology 2

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From many +‎ -some.

Noun

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manysome (plural manysomes)

  1. A group of many.
  2. A sex act involving multiple people.

See also

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