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ˈdoubtsome, a. Sc. and north. dial.
Also 6 doutsum.
[f. doubt n. + -some.]
= doubtful.
1513Douglas æneis vi. xi. 91 Thochtful in mynd, ne doutsum by na way. 1591Jas. I in Farr. S.P. Jas. I (1848) 5 Long doubtsome fight. 1642Declar. Lords Secr. Counc. Scot. 3 His generall and doubtsome faith. 1689tr. Buchanan's De Jure Regni apud Scotos 35 The hazard of a doubtsome Cure. 1847–78Halliw., Doubtsome, doubtful, uncertain. North. [In N.W. Lincolnsh., Lonsdale, Mid-Yorksh., Whitby, Northumberland Gloss.].
Hence ˈdoubtsomely adv., doubtfully.
1533Bellenden Livy v. (1822) 417 Quhat maner of man this wes that spak sa doutsumlie. |