ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Quakesome

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Quakesome is an adjective meaning Characterised or marked by quaking.

Meaning

Characterised or marked by quaking.

Example Sentences

At street corners after dark in the West End, and up courts in the City, may be heard the hoarse cornet à piston, the quakesome flute, and eke the twanging harp, in trinity of dissonance; [...]
'Ere 's me, look 'ee, trimming them borders, Sergeant, so 'appy-'earted as any bird, and all at once I falls to coldsome, quakesome shivers, my 'eart jumps into my jaws, my knees knocks an' trembles horrorsome-like, an' I sweats — "

Related Words

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