What does flickersome mean?
Flickersome means Characterised or marked by flickering.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Characterised or marked by flickering.
And Martha thought these fine ladies were that flickersome, all milk o' human kindness when it wahn't no use, and stones o' granite when takin' trouble might come handy.
The kemenche had started shrieking like a thing possessed, the oud was going bananas, and now Zenzational Zenaide was zooming to her big finish, “then a crazed madness enters in,” where the maiden flung herself at the bars, and the bars flung her back, and she flung herself again, and again, “flickersome like a firefly she whorls within the crudest cage, O woe! The tender flesh of the pulchrous girl is torn by vile bonds infernal.
Even so, burning days were flickersome.
Use flickersome when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Flickersome means Characterised or marked by flickering.
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And Martha thought these fine ladies were that flickersome, all milk o' human kindness when it wahn't no use, and stones o' granite when takin' trouble might come handy.
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