slowsome

English

Etymology

From slow +‎ -some.

Adjective

slowsome (comparative more slowsome, superlative most slowsome)

1. Typified by slowness; characteristically slow
   • 1948, David Marcus, Poetry Ireland - Issues 1-19:

     As I was travellin' through Lecale, I heered from a beggar a slowsome tale.

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     Sounds like a quick death you may think, but I done it sev'ral times an' s'prisin' slowsome it is, b'lief me.

Adverb

slowsome (comparative more slowsome, superlative most slowsome)

1. (nonstandard) In a characteristically slow or slowsome manner; slowly
   • 1992, Stephen Dueweke, Playing Soldiers in the Dark:

     Moose smiled, slowsome.

   • 2013, Frederick Douglass Opie, Hog and Hominy:

     Don't bile fast but jes' let yo' pot simper along slowsome.