Meaning of weaksome | Babel Free

Definitions

Characterised or marked by weakness; feeble

Examples

“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.”

““[...] And how shall the weaksome rise⟳ if they that loves 'em best deserts 'em ?””

“'Are they both pub-crawlers?' asked Edwina, whose thoughts had gone back to times when pubs, if they then existed — and when did they not exist⟳, in one form⟳ or another, since there were vases, bowls, jars, flagons, cups, however mutilated and weaksome, to suggest⟳ their existence—'one doesn't necessarily have⟳ to go to a pub to get⟳ a drink⟳.”

“'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⟳.”

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