lucksome

English

Alternative forms

• luxom

Etymology

From Middle English luxom, *luksom, equivalent to luck +‎ -some.

Adjective

lucksome (comparative more lucksome, superlative most lucksome)

1. Marked by luck; fortunate; characterised as lucky
   • 2010, Loren D. Estleman, Billy Gashade:

     "You are a bucketful of green," observed Frank when I flopped over onto my back and looked up at him standing tall and dripping against the Texas sky. "You're mighty lucksome the river's so low."

   • 2016, Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Alice Lorraine:

     “Prophet of ill, never yet to me spakest thou thing lucksome”—this was the sentiment of that river when disappointed of Alice.

2. Blessed.
   • 1836, Mason Locke Weems, The Life of William Penn, page 50:

     His conscience was clear; his heart was cheered; so, deep inhaling the luxom air, and breathing his pious ejaculations to heaven, he sprung forward to his journey, […]