topplesome

adj

topplesome

adj

Etymology From topple + -some.

1

Characterised or marked by toppling

  • There you are, Button," she said, quite naturally, with a little laugh, "and here am I, and I've been dreaming we and the rest were off among the stars in chase of a fly-away canary, in a dreadfully topplesome breeze-blown shallop, that, now I am awake and think of it, must have been the 'wooden shoe.'1895, Margaret Harriet Matthews, Dame Prism:
  • In this case, it was a towerlike and topplesome sixteen-ouncer that brought a fresh unrest not to the kitchen table (how could I eat?), but to an outlying one, a step table, a side table, the one I strewed with my collectings, my pertainings, [...]1998, Mid-American Review, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

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