Meaning of fusome | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Handy, deft-handed, workmanlike.
   UK, dialectal, obsolete
2. Neat; handsome, comely, shapely, attractive.
   UK, dialectal, obsolete

Examples

“While glakit fools, owr rife o' cash, Pamper their weyms wi' fusome trash, I think a chiel may gayly pass;”

“Waes me! waes me! siccan a fusome sight as I am.”

“Out, fie, the fusome carlie! The ill contriving carlie!”

“And ye be gaun to court a wife, ye do tell to me, ' Tis ye sall hae my Fusome Fug, Your ae wife for to be, be, Your ae wife for to be.”

“What pleas'd him best, the warmed up some keal, And RALF dud mak a varra fusome meal,”

“Whya nowt but weel , she seems a varra conny fusom wife, en I hear they hoffer et dea varra weel, en baith draas yaa way, en gitten ther lile farm varra connoly stockt;”

“She was...as douce and fewsome as ony woman's bairn”

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