clambersome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From clamber +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

clambersome (comparative more clambersome, superlative most clambersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by clambering
    • 1908, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Princess Penniless:
      "[...] Mind where ye are comin', you Geordies, wi' your big, clambersome feet!"
    • 1976, Rainer Maria Rilke, Poems, 1906 to 1926:
      Your guardian wood remains unbowed, / full of clambersome concealing; [...]
    • 2011, Traci L. Slatton, Dancing in the Tabernacle:
      In my children's arms, in my children's eyes / there is love and anguish and knowing too wise / for this piddledunk world and its spinachy ways / its clambersome nights and blistering days / I offer my arms for their snuggletug ease / for their dream down wares and their 'zactly stuff, please God / let it be enough