clawsome
adjEtymology From claw + -some.
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Characterised or marked by having claws
- I'm acutely aware that this lovely blond beast, if properly provoked, could rip my lungs out with a single swipe of clawsome paw.1997, David Petersen, The Nearby Faraway:
- Elvis had turned his back on the Church of the Almost-Here End, sold his soul to MOR, but Jerry Lee kept pumping—Holiness! Tongues!—and with each new clawsome, wild wife, with every new midnight violence, every extravagance of face, he slid further from grace.2009, Nick Tosches, Country:
2 more examples
- It was a very clawsome hug.2014, Maggie Stiefvater, Spirit Animals:
- [...] he paused, leaning into the table, eyebrows raised expectantly, “claw-some.”2016, RC Boldt, Laws of Attraction: