perilsome
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]perilsome (comparative more perilsome, superlative most perilsome)
- Characterised or marked by peril; perilous
- 1998, Paul Salzman, An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction:
- In which regard it was considered of by the common table of the cupbearers what a perilsome thing it was to let any stranger or out-dweller approach so near the precincts of the prince as the great chamber without examining what he was and giving him his pass.
- 2014, Pat Rogers, Grub Street (Routledge Revivals): Studies in a Subculture:
- It did not need the Scourers or the Mohocks to make going abroad a perilsome affair.