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Scots
Etymology
From bight + -some, or alteration of Middle English buhsum (“obedient, flexible”), from Old English *būhsum (“bendable, flexible, pliant, obedient”). Compare also Dutch buigzaam (“flexible, pliant”), German biegsam (“flexible, pliant”). See also buxom.
Adjective
bightsome (comparative mair bightsome, superlative maist bightsome)
- Having an air of ease combined with activity; easy; light; active.
1958, David Daiches, The present age in British literature:Lively, louch, atweesh, atween, / Auchimuty or aspate, / Threidiri through the averins / Or bightsome in the aftergait.- Lively, dull, betwixt, between, / Paltry or in flood, / Completely dry through the heather-stems / Or buoyant through the outflow.