mightsome
nounEtymology From might + -some, perhaps for mite + -some.
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Informal, Nonstandard, Regional A (little) bit; somewhat; a tad.
- The ranch, it can get a mightsome lonely.1993, Lee Scofield, Sweet Amity's Fire:
mightsome
verbEtymology From Middle English mightsomen, mihtsomen, apparently an alteration of Middle English nühtsomen, from Old English ġenyhtsumian (“to abound, have abundance, suffice”), from Proto-Germanic *ganuhtsumōną (“to suffice”), from *nuhtiz (“sufficiency, enoughness”), from Proto-Indo-European *eneḱ-, *neḱ- (“to reach, attain”). Cognate with Old High German ginuhtsamōn (“to be sufficient”).
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Dialectal To be powerful.
- Derived terms
- mightsomand, mightsomeness