Weaksome
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Weaksome is an adjective meaning Characterised or marked by weakness; feeble.
Meaning
Characterised or marked by weakness; feeble.
Example Sentences
“[...] And how shall the weaksome rise if they that loves 'em best deserts 'em ?”
'Call that a bite? You is weaksome as a wormwiggler!' Grimbeard carried them over to the fireside, where he gave his brother's chair a savage kick.
My old mother is pretty weaksome, and can't do much besides get the victuals, so I have to look to all the geese and pigs and hens, when I or't to be 'tendin' to the cattle, and plowin' and farm-work.
A beggar in course he is, poor brat, but, saving your worship's pardon, I don't see how he can be anything else — coming, as he did, by a wrong tack into the world, and taken up by a weaksome, cranky creature, as always lived more or less on charity.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include feeblesome, weakly, frailsome, weak-minded, debile, asthenic.
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