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tempersome, a. orig. dial.|ˈtɛmpəsəm| [f. temper n. + -some1.] Quick-tempered. Also pseudo-arch. [after temper n. 6], displaying extreme conditions of weather. Hence ˈtempersomeness.
1875W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 119 Tempersome, hasty-tempered. 1879–81G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 434 Tempersome, adj., hot-tempered; passionate. 1906W. De Morgan Joseph Vance xliii. 392 He was very tempersome about it. 1909― It never can happen Again I. xxv. 370 Marianne, for all her tempersomeness and jealousy, loved and reverenced Challis. 1946M. Peake Titus Groan 234 And now that it is so tempersome and cold you are always going out into the nastiness and getting wet or frozen. |