flailsome

English

Etymology

From flail +‎ -some.

Adjective

flailsome (comparative more flailsome, superlative most flailsome)

1. Characteristic of a flail, or characterised by flailing
   • 1940, Winfred Ernest Garrison, Faith of the Free:

     A minister of scholarly achievement, as sensitive to social influences as litmus paper to an agent, decided that his town and countryside had had enough of the slot machine racket and all its flailsome appendages.

   • 1990, Spin, volume 5, number 12:

     This features a cunning blend of pop vocal harmonic construction and flailsome, fringe-rock accompaniment.

   • 2011, Beth Kephart, You Are My Only:

     Greeny-crackly. Fever-trees. Scalesome. Flailsome. Tusky. I was eight reading those words; I remember.