crysome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From cry +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

crysome (comparative more crysome, superlative most crysome)

  1. Characterised by crying or weeping; tearful; lamentful
    • 1821, Charles Kitchell Gardner, The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review:
      His fancies are often as sweet and as heavenly, as those which "may make a crysome child to smile."
    • 2008, Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl:
      In all the preceding years, with all my nieces and nephews, with Tegan herself, when a tiny person got crysome, I handed them back to the person responsible for them, secure in the knowledge that nothing I could do would appease them so I didn't have to try.

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

crysome

  1. Alternative form of crisme