eagersome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From eager +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

eagersome (comparative more eagersome, superlative most eagersome)

  1. (rare) Characterised or marked by eagerness.
    • 1901, Eugene Field, Joseph G. Brown, A Little Book of Tribune Verse:
      It loves to coquette with my eagersome eyes, […]
    • 1960, Analog Science Fact, Fiction - Volume 66, Issues 2-6, page 29:
      Even a knocked-about old palomer like me has seen enough o' men to ken when a one's too timid an' eagersome to stand by a lie.
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