broodsome
adjEtymology From brood + -some.
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Characterised or marked by brooding
- The forest highway was as empty, broodsome, and silent as any spirit grove in a fanciful Deadman's Land; [...]1903, Ernest A. Treeton, The Instigator:
- I con the energy of each and all, I am myself a broodsome cognisance, Watching how this and that by bulb and stem then Leans forth, [...]1908, Gerda Dalliba, An Earth Poem, and Other Poems:
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- Impatient, perhaps, for the child to be born, over the next weeks I was more “broodsome” than ever, as Randall put it — some word he'd picked up in the village.2010, Elizabeth Bunce, Elizabeth C. Bunce, A Curse Dark As Gold: