latesome
adjEtymology From Middle English latesom, latsom, latsum, from Old English lætsum (“slow; late”), equivalent to late + -some.
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Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, UK, Dialectal Marked by lateness; characteristically late
- "By gane Times and latesome Changes," [...]1818, Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review:
- [...] but if I should take of your cattle, and so I think for to do; for I have no oxen to get your corn with, nor none I cannot get carried, for every man is so busy with their own (21st August); for weather is so latesome in this country (Kinalton, Notts) that men can neither well get com nor hay-[...]1843, The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: