stragglesome

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English

Etymology

From straggle +‎ -some.

Adjective

stragglesome (comparative more stragglesome, superlative most stragglesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by straggling.
    • 2009, Jonathan Miles, Dear American Airlines:
      But movement is scarce here tonight: stragglesome wanderers, looking purposeless and disattached, strolling for the sake of motion.
    • 2016, Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea:
      Bombay is too green, too pretty, and too stragglesome; and Madras died ever so long ago.

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