Meaning of loonsome | Babel Free

Definitions

1. lonesome
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2. Characteristic of a loon or marked by looniness

Examples

“There they sat, with their "heads bowed down like the loonsome bulrush," as Uncle Billy poetically expressed it, weeping over their sins, as he thought, but the wicked creatures were laughing.”

“"Jack he ha' gart ta be about his wark, an' Aggie hare ha' gart har chillern ta see arter, an' sometimes I fare sa loonsome, hare, all alooan . . . wi' Gord."”

“Oh, most o' Pa's yarnin's was jus' musey duck fartin' an'in his loonsome old age he even b'liefed Meronym the Prescient was his presh b'loved Sonmi, yay, he 'sisted it, he said he knowed it all by birthmarks an' comets'n'all.”

“Hi everyone, Had a lovlerley ubberley weekend-filled with much loonsome dancing and merriment.”

“Only one of them is crazy / Loonsome moontide / Drifts me like a paperboat [...]”

“Of course, Chisum didn’t read what he advocated before he advocated it (what would you expect), but his response when he finally read it wasn’t much less loonsome.”

““Failure of a so called musician, who drunkenly has staggered on home to the apartment complex where he dwell, but drunker than a mule on it's^([sic]) ass, and coincidentally, accidently^([sic]) enters the lonely loonsome next door neighbors^([sic]) place. […]””

“However, our loonsome duo stumble across advertising, marketing, Hovis, Argos and the Planet Zestis Omercrom Three (3) in their quest for knowledge.”

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