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English
Etymology
From short + -some. For sense development from short to amusing, compare merry.
Adjective
shortsome (comparative more shortsome, superlative most shortsome)
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) Marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) amusing; enjoyable
1827, Thomas Dibdin, The Reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin:[...] and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time "unco shortsome."
1886, F. J. Child, The Brown Robin:There's seven maries in your bower, / There's seven o them and three, / And I'll send them to good greenwood, / For flowers to shortsome thee.
2009, Liz Curtis Higgs, Fair Is the Rose:'Twould be a dreary, lonely spring at Carlyle without shortsome Jane to add color to her days.
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