clambersome
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]clambersome (comparative more clambersome, superlative most clambersome)
- 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