laboursome
adjUK /ˈleɪbəsəm/ · US /ˈleɪbəɹsəm/
Etymology From labour + -some.
1
Obsolete Hard-working.
2
Archaic Characterised or marked by labour; laborious; difficult, elaborate, involved.
- your laboursome and dainty trims1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
- Derived terms
- laboursomely