crysome

adj

crysome

adj

Etymology From cry + -some.

1

Characterised by crying or weeping; tearful; lamentful

  • His fancies are often as sweet and as heavenly, as those which "may make a crysome child to smile."1821, Charles Kitchell Gardner, The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review:
  • In all the preceding years, with all my nieces and nephews, with Tegan herself, when a tiny person got crysome, I handed them back to the person responsible for them, secure in the knowledge that nothing I could do would appease them so I didn't have to try.2008, Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl:

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