envysome

adj

envysome

adj

Etymology From envy + -some.

1

Characterised or marked by envy; envious

  • I'm going to show 'em to Molly anyway. Won 't she be envysome?1913, Helen Gaylord, Luzetta R. Sanders, Cora A. Sanders, The Pokeyville Rally:
  • If she can also claim, as the Hackensack creature can, that Charles Livingston Bull, the illustrator, did her portrait, she may take an envysome position on the alley fence at midnight or any other time, and her right will be undisputed.1929, Nature Magazine, volumes 13-14:

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