lustsome

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English

Etymology

From Middle English lustsum, from Old English *lustsum (attested only in Old English lustsumlīċ (pleasant, delectable)), from Proto-Germanic *lustusamaz (delightful, desirous), equivalent to lust +‎ -some. Cognate with Middle Low German lustsām (friendly, lovely), obsolete Dutch lustzaam (pleasant, beautiful, charming), obsolete German lustsam (pleasing, graceful).

Adjective

lustsome (comparative more lustsome, superlative most lustsome)

  1. Marked or characterised by lust; given to lust; sensual; lustful
    • 2012, Sandra Hill, Santa Viking:
      And, of course, many a Viking child would be conceived in the bed furs by Viking men and women who were bored and lustsome.
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
      We'd got a feverish hornyin' for each other, see, an' in that druggy skylarkin' aft'noon I was slurpyin' her lustsome mangoes an' moistly fig an' the true is I din't want to go nowhere else, an' Roses din't gather many palila leafs that day neither, nay.