latesome

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English

Etymology

From Middle English latesom, latsom, latsum, from Old English lætsum (slow; late), equivalent to late +‎ -some.

Adjective

latesome (comparative more latesome, superlative most latesome)

  1. (chiefly UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Marked by lateness; characteristically late
    • 1818, Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review:
      "By gane Times and latesome Changes," [...]
    • 1843, The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge:
      [...] but if I should take of your cattle, and so I think for to do; for I have no oxen to get your corn with, nor none I cannot get carried, for every man is so busy with their own (21st August); for weather is so latesome in this country (Kinalton, Notts) that men can neither well get com nor hay-[...]