cornersome
adjEtymology From corner + -some.
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Dated Characterised or marked by (having) corners
- The road is cornersome, but much easier to find than one would imagine from the map.1902, Car: A Journal of Travel by Land, Sea and Air, volume 2, page 120:
- For one man's virtues may be in such a crude and cornersome stage of development that they will offend more than the refined faults of another man.1903, Ellen Burns Sherman, Why Love Grows Cold, page 120:
2 more examples
- It is cornersome, but goodly; intricate, but interesting, and worth the learning.1904, John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu Montagu (2nd Baron), The Best Ways Out of London:
- Between them and home lay the 10 miles of road over Snaefell summit, 6 miles of steep up-grade with two wicked hairpin bends, and 4 miles of very fast descent, also somewhat cornersome.1911, Motorcycle Illustrated, volume 6, page 46: