"curlsome" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more curlsome [comparative], most curlsome [superlative]
Etymology: From curl + -some. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|curl|some}} curl + -some Head templates: {{en-adj}} curlsome (comparative more curlsome, superlative most curlsome)
  1. Characterised or marked by curls
    Sense id: en-curlsome-en-adj-wnMjLGQH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -some

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          "ref": "1918, Eric Paul Schulze, Vers Ego",
          "text": "And time again My bluest lady fair Serenely still passed by And felt her goldlike Hair Ah! here a curlsome smile meekly awhile.",
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          "ref": "1996, Serge K. Katenev, International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves: Volume 17, Issue 1",
          "text": "Physics of H-eigenwaves in a periodic iris-loaded circular waveguide is generally characterized using a number of the typical power flows. Both the reflectionless flows and the ones contra-directional over the guide's cross-section are included, as well as the curlsome ones and others.",
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          "ref": "2007, Erik Olsen, Surf During Lunch",
          "text": "Well, then take a qu[i]ck gander over at the Surf Channel, an online resource for everything curlsome and frothy.",
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          "ref": "2010, Susie Groom-Smith, Face at the Window",
          "text": "[...] snifflemas daisies and troublesome coughfulness; hibernating curlsome and logful smokefulness.",
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