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English
Etymology
From grit + -some.
Adjective
gritsome (comparative more gritsome, superlative most gritsome)
- Characterised or marked by grit (all senses); gritty
1961, John Merton Patrick, Buried astronomy:And noumena, transcending Earth, / The gritsome round of rocks [...]
1973, New York Magazine, volume 6, number 38:He muflles hometward veiny eyed / With gritsome mudcrumped bag of sleep.
2011, Mark Wilshin, Raising Arkansas:She may be gritsome enough to shoot her arch nemesis Tom Chaney, played by a desperately underused Josh Brolin, twice, but she promptly falls down a well and has to be rescued by her two dads.
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