feathersome

English

Etymology

From feather +‎ -some.

Adjective

feathersome (comparative more feathersome, superlative most feathersome)

1. Characterised or marked by feathers
   • 1922, I.C. Tomlinson, The Revelation of Saint John:

     I've watched in the azure the eagle's proud wing, / His soaring majestic, and feathersome fling—— / Careening in liberty higher and higher—[...]

   • 1992, Clive Sutton, Words, Science And Learning:

     With the rise of writing 'leaf' was taken over as a reasonable word for the piece of material on which to write and 'quill' for the instrument with which to write, though the quill gradually became less and less feathersome.

   • 1993, Shatrughna P. Sinha, Instant encyclopaedia of geography - Volume 9:

     Furthermore, the birds orientate themselves carefully with regard to the sun and gently flap their feathersome wings to increase convective cooling.

   • 1999, Tabor Evans, Longarm 244: Longarm and the Devil's Sister:

     They didn't have to move to the east with the more feathersome Arapaho in '75 because they chose to be self- supporting and law-abiding residents of this here state capital.

   • 2007, Angela McAllister, Ian Beck, Digory and the Lost King:

     "Nothing to worry about. Just a bit of dungeon work — does a man good to do an honest day's work now and then. Mind you, I do miss the royal, um, you know . . . plumpy-feathersome- spring-'n'-bounce?"