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English
Etymology
From trip + -some.
Adjective
tripsome (comparative more tripsome, superlative most tripsome)
- (archaic) Characterised or marked by tripping (light stepping); light-footed; nimble
1804, Sir Theodore Martin, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Alfred Crowquill, The Book of Ballads:Not prurient Mars, / Pointing his toe through ten celestial bars — / Not young Apollo, beamily array'd / In tripsome guise for Juno's masquerade — / Not smartest Hermes, with his pinion girth, [...]
1831, Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review - Volume 125:[...] she had never seen the triumph of a winner expand beyond the buckram simper of General Lorriston on dropping two halfcrowns into his spangled card-purse; or the tripsome sprightliness of Lady Lavinia Lisle's parting curtsey, [...]
1841, Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, Bentley's Miscellany - Volume 7:He hears the flageolet of Collinet, — he savours the garnished chickens of Gunter, — he beholds the tripsome feet of Lady Wilhelmine or Lady Clementina flit by him; [...]
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