lawsome

English

Etymology

From law +‎ -some.

Adjective

lawsome (comparative more lawsome, superlative most lawsome)

1. (rare, nonstandard) Characterised or marked by lawfulness; lawful
   • 2001, Tabor Evans, Longarm 270:

     The lawsome owner of that expensive palomino is a real college boy with a generous allowance from a daddy in the cattle trade.

   • 2017, Robert Edmond Alter, Shovel Nose and the Gator Grabbers, page 74:

     But Lon Camp was gifted with a more legal turn of mind than the others and he said, “Now holt on a mite . Ifn Dad an' Hughie really have gone an' claim-staked this here fountain, then I reckon they got a lawsome right to her. […] ”