wiresome
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]wiresome (comparative more wiresome, superlative most wiresome)
- Characterised or marked by wire or wires; wiry.
- 1857, Friends' Intelligencer, volume 13:
- By forest fountains hast thou seen / The wiresome, fairy sight, / Where banks are clad in mosses green, / Some dark, and some so bright?
- 1987, Frank Luger, Herzenblut:
- I was hiresome, hick and hasteful / You were wiresome, wick and wasteful [...]