"shortsome" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From short + -some. For sense development from short to amusing, compare merry.",
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    {
      "form": "more shortsome",
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        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most shortsome",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1827, Thomas Dibdin, The Reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin",
          "text": "[...] and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time \"unco shortsome.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, F. J. Child, The Brown Robin",
          "text": "There's seven maries in your bower, / There's seven o them and three, / And I'll send them to good greenwood, / For flowers to shortsome thee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2009, Liz Curtis Higgs, Fair Is the Rose",
          "text": "'Twould be a dreary, lonely spring at Carlyle without shortsome Jane to add color to her days.",
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        "Marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) amusing; enjoyable"
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          "enjoyable"
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        "(UK dialectal, Scotland) Marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) amusing; enjoyable"
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        "UK",
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    }
  ],
  "word": "shortsome"
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      },
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  "etymology_text": "From short + -some. For sense development from short to amusing, compare merry.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more shortsome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most shortsome",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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          "ref": "1827, Thomas Dibdin, The Reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin",
          "text": "[...] and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time \"unco shortsome.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, F. J. Child, The Brown Robin",
          "text": "There's seven maries in your bower, / There's seven o them and three, / And I'll send them to good greenwood, / For flowers to shortsome thee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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      ],
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