gritsome

adj

gritsome

adj

Etymology From grit + -some.

1

Characterised or marked by grit (all senses); gritty

  • And noumena, transcending Earth, / The gritsome round of rocks [...]1961, John Merton Patrick, Buried astronomy:
  • He muflles hometward veiny eyed / With gritsome mudcrumped bag of sleep.1973, New York Magazine, volume 6, number 38:
1 more example
  • She may be gritsome enough to shoot her arch nemesis Tom Chaney, played by a desperately underused Josh Brolin, twice, but she promptly falls down a well and has to be rescued by her two dads.2011, Mark Wilshin, Raising Arkansas:

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