lustsome

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English lustsum, from Old English *lustsum (attested only in Old English lustsumlīċ (pleasant, delectable)), from Proto-Germanic *lustusamaz (delightful, desirous), equivalent to lust +‎ -some. Cognate with Middle Low German lustsām (friendly, lovely), obsolete Dutch lustzaam (pleasant, beautiful, charming), obsolete German lustsam (pleasing, graceful).

Adjective

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lustsome (comparative more lustsome, superlative most lustsome)

  1. Marked or characterised by lust; given to lust; sensual; lustful
    • 2012, Sandra Hill, Santa Viking:
      And, of course, many a Viking child would be conceived in the bed furs by Viking men and women who were bored and lustsome.
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
      We'd got a feverish hornyin' for each other, see, an' in that druggy skylarkin' aft'noon I was slurpyin' her lustsome mangoes an' moistly fig an' the true is I din't want to go nowhere else, an' Roses din't gather many palila leafs that day neither, nay.