manysome
English
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editmanysome (comparative more manysome, superlative most manysome)
- (rare, dialectal) Characterised or marked by abundance; plentiful, abundant; multiple.
- 1880, William Barnes, An Outline of Rede-craft (logic): With English Wording, page 15:
- One end manysome and the other onesome, as 'John and Alfred―are wise,' 'John―is wise and good.'
- 1906, Frank Kraft, The American Physician, volume 32, page 283:
- He is as young and spry and chipper to-day as he was then, notwithstanding all the manysome burdens and trials that were placed upon him during the ensuing years.
- 2009, Horst W. Doelle, J. Stefan Rokem, Marin Berovic, Fundamentals in Biotechnology:
- In contrast to non-viral vectors, viral vectors have caused manysome safety concerns but are also usually much more efficient in transducing genetic material in to the target cells.
- 2015, Sara Taylor, The Shore:
- "Oysters be manysome this year," he began, and we started in to talking in the slow weaving way men have, of this and that and nothing much.
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editEtymology 2
editNoun
editmanysome (plural manysomes)