manysome

English

Etymology

From many +‎ -some.

Adjective

manysome (comparative more manysome, superlative most manysome)

1. (rare, dialectal) Characterised or marked by abundance; plentiful, abundant; multiple.
   • 1880, William Barnes, An Outline of Rede-craft (logic): With English Wording, page 15:

     One end manysome and the other onesome, as 'John and Alfred―are wise,' 'John―is wise and good.'

   • 1906, Frank Kraft, The American Physician, volume 32, page 283:

     He is as young and spry and chipper to-day as he was then, notwithstanding all the manysome burdens and trials that were placed upon him during the ensuing years.

   • 2009, Horst W. Doelle, ‎J. Stefan Rokem, ‎Marin Berovic, Fundamentals in Biotechnology:

     In contrast to non-viral vectors, viral vectors have caused manysome safety concerns but are also usually much more efficient in transducing genetic material in to the target cells.

   • 2015, Sara Taylor, The Shore:

     "Oysters be manysome this year," he began, and we started in to talking in the slow weaving way men have, of this and that and nothing much.

Related terms

• manifold