• Friendsome

    Origin

    From friend + -some.

    Full definition of friendsome

    Adjective

    friendsome

    1. (usually colloquial) Indicating friendship; in manner, like or befitting a friend; friendlike; friendly.
      • 1901, Gwendoline Keats, Tales of Dunstáble Weir - Page 130:Everyone outside my mother called father Eben. Father looked up and smiled. He and Miss Bet had been terrible friendsome ever since the day when, as a tiddleliwinkie snip o' a child ...
      • 2000, Randall Beth Platt, The 1898 Baseball Fe-As-Ko - Page 156:He was long-married hisownself, real friendsome, and his smile wasn't aimed at me, it was to match my own.
      • 2010, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas:... maybe Yanagi b'liefed us an' maybe he din't, but he bartered us fungusdo' for rockfish an' warned us Waimea Town weren't so friendsome as it'd been once, nay, Kona say-soed'n'knucklied ficklewise an' you cudn't guess their b'havin's.

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