growsomeadj.
/ˈɡrəʊsəm/ dialect.
a. Of an animal: Apt to grow.
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1863 (Staffordsh. Cottager) Our pig is such a growsome little thing; it will eat anything.
b. Of the weather: Favourable to growth.
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1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) ‘It's growsome weather noo’.
Derivatives
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1579 J. Jones Arte preseruing Bodie & Soule i. xviii. 32 A great helpe vnto growsomnesse, largenesse, and talnesse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.1579- unegalness
- unegested
- unegoist
- unegoistic
- unegotistic
- unegotistical
- unegotistically
- unegual
- unegually
- unelaborate
- unembattled
- unembellished
- unembezzled
- unembittered
- unembodied
- unembowelled
- unembowered
- unembraceable
- unembraced
- unembroidered
- unembroiled
- unemolumented
- unemotional
- unemotionalism
- unemotionally