skillsome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From skill +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

skillsome (comparative more skillsome, superlative most skillsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by skill
    • 1915, Northern Automotive Journal - Volumes 24-25:
      O man of skillsome pith— / He makes its pulses start.
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
      You can't go trustin' folks what lassoop words so skillsome as him.
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