growsome
adjEtymology From grow + -some.
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Dialectal Characterised or marked by growth; apt to grow; conducive to growing
- Since growsome grave of force must have / Sir Ingram Clifford, knight; [...]1828, Nathan Drake, Mornings in Spring:
- They climb the dyke the growsome gets, / In spite o' a' I say; [...]1828, William M'Dowall, Poems, chiefly in the Galloway dialect:
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- Our pig is such a growsome little thing; it will eat anything2011 (original source 1863), Roy Blount, Jr., Alphabetter Juice