"weaksome" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more weaksome [comparative], most weaksome [superlative]
Etymology: From weak + -some. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|weak|some}} weak + -some Head templates: {{en-adj}} weaksome (comparative more weaksome, superlative most weaksome)
  1. Characterised or marked by weakness; feeble
    Sense id: en-weaksome-en-adj--r9zs2Cw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -some

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          "ref": "1861, Philip Thaxter: A Novel",
          "text": "My old mother is pretty weaksome, and can't do much besides get the victuals, so I have to look to all the geese and pigs and hens, when I or't to be 'tendin' to the cattle, and plowin' and farm-work."
        },
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          "ref": "1884, Mr. Nobody - Volume 1",
          "text": "A beggar in course he is, poor brat, but, saving your worship's pardon, I don't see how he can be anything else — coming, as he did, by a wrong tack into the world, and taken up by a weaksome, cranky creature, as always lived more or less on charity."
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          "ref": "1972, Leslie Poles Hartley, The collections",
          "text": "'Are they both pub-crawlers?' asked Edwina, whose thoughts had gone back to times when pubs, if they then existed — and when did they not exist, in one form or another, since there were vases, bowls, jars, flagons, cups, however mutilated and weaksome, to suggest their existence—'one doesn't necessarily have to go to a pub to get a drink.",
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          "ref": "2012, Alan MacDonald, Sir Bigwart: Knight of the Wonky Table",
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