clawsome

English

Alternative forms

• claw-some

Etymology

From claw +‎ -some.

Adjective

clawsome (comparative more clawsome, superlative most clawsome)

1. Characterised or marked by having claws
   • 1997, David Petersen, The Nearby Faraway:

     I'm acutely aware that this lovely blond beast, if properly provoked, could rip my lungs out with a single swipe of clawsome paw.

   • 2009, Nick Tosches, Country:

     Elvis had turned his back on the Church of the Almost-Here End, sold his soul to MOR, but Jerry Lee kept pumping—Holiness! Tongues!—and with each new clawsome, wild wife, with every new midnight violence, every extravagance of face, he slid further from grace.

   • 2014, Maggie Stiefvater, Spirit Animals:

     It was a very clawsome hug.

   • 2016, RC Boldt, Laws of Attraction:

     [...] he paused, leaning into the table, eyebrows raised expectantly, “claw-some.”