shortsome

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Definition of shortsome

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adj

(Scotland, UK, dialectal)Marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) (of time) amusing; enjoyable

“[…] and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time "unco shortsome."”
“There's seven maries in your bower, / There's seven o them and three, / And I'll send them to good greenwood, / For flowers to shortsome thee.”
“'Twould be a dreary, lonely spring at Carlyle without shortsome Jane to add color to her days.”

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From short + -some. For sense development from short to amusing, compare merry.

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