lovesomeadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈlʌvs(ə)m/, U.S.

/ˈləvsəm/

Forms:

α. Old English–Middle English lufsum, early Middle English luffsumm ( Ormulum), Middle English lofesum, Middle English lofsom, Middle English lofsum, Middle English loouesum, Middle English loueseme, Middle English louesome, Middle English louesum, Middle English lovesom, Middle English lovesum, Middle English luffsum, Middle English lufsom, Middle English lufsome, Middle English lufsoum, Middle English lufsume, Middle English lufsumme, Middle English luuesum, Middle English–1500s louesom, Middle English– lovesome; Scottish pre-1700 louesum, pre-1700 lovesom, pre-1700 lowesum, pre-1700 lufesome, pre-1700 lufesum, pre-1700 luffsum, pre-1700 lufsum, pre-1700 luifesome, pre-1700 luifsum, pre-1700 1800s– lovesome, 1700s–1800s lo'esome, 1700s–1800s loosome, 1800s laesome, 1800s lo'esom, 1800s looesome, 1800s luesome, 1800s– loesome, 1900s– lousome, 1900s– lovesam (Orkney), 1900s– luvesome.

β. Middle English lessoum, Middle English lossom, Middle English lossum, Middle English lussom, Middle English lussum, late Middle English luxom (in a late copy), late Middle English luxome (in a late copy), late Middle English luxonne (in a late copy), 1500s lusum; Scottish pre-1700 luissum, pre-1700 lusome, pre-1700 lusume, pre-1700 1800s lusum.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: love n.¹, -some suffix¹.

Etymology: < love n.¹ + -some suffix¹. Compare lovely adj.

A. adj.

1. Worthy of love; having qualities that inspire love; lovable.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > quality of being lovable > [adjective]

lieflyOE

lovesomeOE

lovelyOE

leesomec1200

loveful?c1225

love-worthc1225

loveworthya1250

amiablea1375

lovablec1422

amorousa1425

amable1492

OE Crist III 913 He bið..lufsum ond liþe leofum monnum to sceawianne þone scynan wlite.

c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 115 Ihesu crist..þet ich on leue, & luuie as leoflukest & lufsumest lauerd.

c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 132 (MED) A louesum buirde he liȝte with-Inne, Þe worþiest þat euer was.

c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 29 Hise louesum lijf þat alle men siȝe[n], Ful myldeli he out gan lete.

1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xv. 33 Thow luifsum Lark & gay Goldspink,..Lat be ȝour heuinly noitis.

1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. iii. 55 Wild, witty, lovesome, beautiful and young.

1741 H. Giffard Pamela v. i. 43 The 'Squire is young and lovesome.

c1746 W. Forbes Dominie Depos'd (1785) 40 Poor Meg lae still, and Look't as loosome as a saint.

1804 R. Couper Poetry II. 208 The looesome Helen there he met, Sae fair, sae young and gay.

1899 A. C. Swinburne Rosamund iii. 60 I know not Aught lovesome save the sweet brief death of sleep.

1908 J. Payne Carol & Cadence 12 God, how lovesome life is, Now that Spring loose-strife is Here again.

1942 Hammond (Indiana) Times 9 Nov. 4/2 The home town is a lovesome place.

1981 Times 2 July 15/7 She sounds quite a lovesome old gran but my word that wasn't at all how she appeared to her first husband.

2007 Washington Times (Nexis) 8 Mar. a18 A car terrorizes and attacks a lovesome pink piggy bank.

2. Friendly; affectionate. Now rare (chiefly Irish English (northern)).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > [adjective]

lovesomeOE

lovelyOE

amorousa1393

lovinga1450

lovingly1493

beloving1549

amorevolousa1670

romantic1866

amorist1882

OE Panther 32 He is monþwære, lufsum ond leoftæl, nele laþes wiht ægnum [read ængum] geæfnan butan þam attorsceaþan, his fyrngeflitan.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1547 Aȝȝ to follȝhenn soþ meocleȝȝc. Wiþþ luffsumm æddmodnesse.

a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 33 (MED) Wiþ lossum chere he on me loh.

a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain 214 Þat lady with a lufsom chere Led me down into þe hall.

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. B^v But they, the sillye fonded fooles,..Do feaste him, for his louesom loue.

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. viii. 91 Won't we hold Our little yearly lovesome frolic feast.

1901 H. C. Welch Anselm iii. 48 This increasing influence was due to the happy lovesome temper which plays through his letters.

1990 L. Todd Words Apart 111 Lassies are luvesome whenever they're wee, (girls are affectionate when they're young).

3. Inspiring love on account of beauty; lovely, beautiful.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [adjective]

smickerc725

faireOE

lieflyOE

sheenOE

wenlichc1000

wlitic1000

lovesomec1175

lustya1240

flourisheda1375

lovelya1400

weenc1400

beauteous1435

beautifulc1443

finec1450

pulchriousa1500

speciousa1513

shanda1525

speciosea1525

pulchrousc1540

bonny1580

beauty1598

lovelike1621

killing1634

florid1642

beautied1830

stunning1849

fairsome1862

pulchritudinous1877

beaut1894

loverly1907

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3583 Dauiþess name..uss tacneþþ strang wiþþ hannd & luffsumm onn to lokenn.

c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 6 (MED) Wel schal hire iwurðen for hire lufsume leor.

a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 269 Ihesu,..þu art lufsum on leor, þu art al schene.

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2816 (MED) Ysonde haue þere he wald Luffsum vnder line.

a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 31 Hire rode is ase rose þat red is on rys; Wiþ lilye-white leres lossum he is.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 604 (MED) Þer-for he gafe him to be-gin A luuesum land at lenger [a1400 Gött. to duell] in.

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. l. 465 O lufsom lady bryght, How have ye faren syn that ye were here?

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 1215 He saw..Com fra heuen a lufsom lyght.

a1500 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Douce) 344 A lady, lufsom [c1440 Thornton lufsome] of lote, ledand a kniȝte.

1568 in J. Kinsley Poems W. Dunbar (1979) 137 Fair lufsum lady, gentill and discret.

1685 J. Dryden tr. Lucretius i. in Sylvæ 54 Nothing new can spring Without thy warmth..Or beautiful, or lovesome can appear.

1697 J. Dennis tr. Ovid Passion of Byblis in Miscellany Poems (ed. 2) 1 Would I had been (deriv'd from some poor Swain) But the most lovesome she upon the Plain.

1820 W. Scott Monastery II. ii. 34 The handsomest, the very lovesomest young man I ever saw with sight.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Beggar Maid 12 One praised her ancles, one her eyes, One her dark hair and lovesome mien.

1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 323 He heard a sudden lovesome song begun.

a1897 T. E. Brown My Garden in Coll. Poems (1900) 699 A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!

1929 B. Carman Wild Garden 20 A lovesome thing is Madeleine, With night-dark eyes and hair.

1957 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 24 Nov. s6/7 A woman can curl up on a couch and look lovesome.

2004 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 9 Oct. 20 A redcurrant laden with shiny red berries is a lovesome feast for the eye.

4. Amorous. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > (of persons) inclined to love

lovelyc1225

amorousa1393

lovesome1575

nutty1819

amatorious1893

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 6^v O Lustie lufe, thy lufesum obseruance So Ioyous is.

1720 D. Manley Power of Love ii. 150 Caton, who being naturally Lovesome, put her self in his way at every opportunity, so that he could not help saying soft Things to her.

1790 H. L. Piozzi Diary 18 Mar. in Thraliana (1942) II. ii. 762 I have seen Mrs Hervey the Woman whom della Crusca had Thoughts of marrying while they lived much together... The Lady seems Lovesome, & I fancy lends him money from Time to Time.

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen vii. 104 Shrubs that twined their arms together in lovesome tangles.

a1872 H. F. Chorley Brave Old Oak in Hammond (Indiana) Times (1938) 11 Feb. 14/8 They frolicked with lovesome swains.

1883 Longman's Mag. Sept. 533 While lovesome and moansome thereon spake and falter'd the dove to the dove.

2006 Guardian (Nexis) 7 Mar. 11 The two lonesome, lovesome cowboys of Brokeback Mountain.

†B. n.

A lovely or beautiful person. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person

lovesomea1350

popinjaya1350

beautya1413

angel1502

good-looker1801

crusher1841

looker1893

a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 37 Þat lussom, when heo on me loh, ybend wax eyþer breȝe.

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 398 Þen sayde þat lufsoum of lyth and lere.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1814 ‘Nay’..Quoþ þat lufsum vnder lyne.

Derivatives

† lovesomehead n. Obsolete rare = lovesomeness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > quality of being lovable > [noun]

lovesomenessOE

lovesomeheada1400

amiableness1528

amability1572

amiability1582

loveliness1657

lovableness1824

lovability1834

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 5792 (MED) I sal þaim bring fra þat thralhede, And into a land of lufsum-hede.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lovesome
释义	lovesomeadj.n. Brit. /ˈlʌvs(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈləvsəm/ Forms: α. Old English–Middle English lufsum, early Middle English luffsumm ( Ormulum), Middle English lofesum, Middle English lofsom, Middle English lofsum, Middle English loouesum, Middle English loueseme, Middle English louesome, Middle English louesum, Middle English lovesom, Middle English lovesum, Middle English luffsum, Middle English lufsom, Middle English lufsome, Middle English lufsoum, Middle English lufsume, Middle English lufsumme, Middle English luuesum, Middle English–1500s louesom, Middle English– lovesome; Scottish pre-1700 louesum, pre-1700 lovesom, pre-1700 lowesum, pre-1700 lufesome, pre-1700 lufesum, pre-1700 luffsum, pre-1700 lufsum, pre-1700 luifesome, pre-1700 luifsum, pre-1700 1800s– lovesome, 1700s–1800s lo'esome, 1700s–1800s loosome, 1800s laesome, 1800s lo'esom, 1800s looesome, 1800s luesome, 1800s– loesome, 1900s– lousome, 1900s– lovesam (Orkney), 1900s– luvesome. β. Middle English lessoum, Middle English lossom, Middle English lossum, Middle English lussom, Middle English lussum, late Middle English luxom (in a late copy), late Middle English luxome (in a late copy), late Middle English luxonne (in a late copy), 1500s lusum; Scottish pre-1700 luissum, pre-1700 lusome, pre-1700 lusume, pre-1700 1800s lusum. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: love n.¹, -some suffix¹. Etymology: < love n.¹ + -some suffix¹. Compare lovely adj. A. adj. 1. Worthy of love; having qualities that inspire love; lovable. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > quality of being lovable > [adjective] lieflyOE lovesomeOE lovelyOE leesomec1200 loveful?c1225 love-worthc1225 loveworthya1250 amiablea1375 lovablec1422 amorousa1425 amable1492 OE Crist III 913 He bið..lufsum ond liþe leofum monnum to sceawianne þone scynan wlite. c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 115 Ihesu crist..þet ich on leue, & luuie as leoflukest & lufsumest lauerd. c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 132 (MED) A louesum buirde he liȝte with-Inne, Þe worþiest þat euer was. c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 29 Hise louesum lijf þat alle men siȝe[n], Ful myldeli he out gan lete. 1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xv. 33 Thow luifsum Lark & gay Goldspink,..Lat be ȝour heuinly noitis. 1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. iii. 55 Wild, witty, lovesome, beautiful and young. 1741 H. Giffard Pamela v. i. 43 The 'Squire is young and lovesome. c1746 W. Forbes Dominie Depos'd (1785) 40 Poor Meg lae still, and Look't as loosome as a saint. 1804 R. Couper Poetry II. 208 The looesome Helen there he met, Sae fair, sae young and gay. 1899 A. C. Swinburne Rosamund iii. 60 I know not Aught lovesome save the sweet brief death of sleep. 1908 J. Payne Carol & Cadence 12 God, how lovesome life is, Now that Spring loose-strife is Here again. 1942 Hammond (Indiana) Times 9 Nov. 4/2 The home town is a lovesome place. 1981 Times 2 July 15/7 She sounds quite a lovesome old gran but my word that wasn't at all how she appeared to her first husband. 2007 Washington Times (Nexis) 8 Mar. a18 A car terrorizes and attacks a lovesome pink piggy bank. 2. Friendly; affectionate. Now rare (chiefly Irish English (northern)). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [adjective] lovesomeOE lovelyOE amorousa1393 lovinga1450 lovingly1493 beloving1549 amorevolousa1670 romantic1866 amorist1882 OE Panther 32 He is monþwære, lufsum ond leoftæl, nele laþes wiht ægnum [read ængum] geæfnan butan þam attorsceaþan, his fyrngeflitan. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1547 Aȝȝ to follȝhenn soþ meocleȝȝc. Wiþþ luffsumm æddmodnesse. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 33 (MED) Wiþ lossum chere he on me loh. a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain 214 Þat lady with a lufsom chere Led me down into þe hall. 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. B^v But they, the sillye fonded fooles,..Do feaste him, for his louesom loue. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. viii. 91 Won't we hold Our little yearly lovesome frolic feast. 1901 H. C. Welch Anselm iii. 48 This increasing influence was due to the happy lovesome temper which plays through his letters. 1990 L. Todd Words Apart 111 Lassies are luvesome whenever they're wee, (girls are affectionate when they're young). 3. Inspiring love on account of beauty; lovely, beautiful. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [adjective] smickerc725 faireOE lieflyOE sheenOE wenlichc1000 wlitic1000 lovesomec1175 lustya1240 flourisheda1375 lovelya1400 weenc1400 beauteous1435 beautifulc1443 finec1450 pulchriousa1500 speciousa1513 shanda1525 speciosea1525 pulchrousc1540 bonny1580 beauty1598 lovelike1621 killing1634 florid1642 beautied1830 stunning1849 fairsome1862 pulchritudinous1877 beaut1894 loverly1907 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3583 Dauiþess name..uss tacneþþ strang wiþþ hannd & luffsumm onn to lokenn. c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 6 (MED) Wel schal hire iwurðen for hire lufsume leor. a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 269 Ihesu,..þu art lufsum on leor, þu art al schene. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2816 (MED) Ysonde haue þere he wald Luffsum vnder line. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 31 Hire rode is ase rose þat red is on rys; Wiþ lilye-white leres lossum he is. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 604 (MED) Þer-for he gafe him to be-gin A luuesum land at lenger [a1400 Gött. to duell] in. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. l. 465 O lufsom lady bryght, How have ye faren syn that ye were here? ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 1215 He saw..Com fra heuen a lufsom lyght. a1500 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Douce) 344 A lady, lufsom [c1440 Thornton lufsome] of lote, ledand a kniȝte. 1568 in J. Kinsley Poems W. Dunbar (1979) 137 Fair lufsum lady, gentill and discret. 1685 J. Dryden tr. Lucretius i. in Sylvæ 54 Nothing new can spring Without thy warmth..Or beautiful, or lovesome can appear. 1697 J. Dennis tr. Ovid Passion of Byblis in Miscellany Poems (ed. 2) 1 Would I had been (deriv'd from some poor Swain) But the most lovesome she upon the Plain. 1820 W. Scott Monastery II. ii. 34 The handsomest, the very lovesomest young man I ever saw with sight. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Beggar Maid 12 One praised her ancles, one her eyes, One her dark hair and lovesome mien. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 323 He heard a sudden lovesome song begun. a1897 T. E. Brown My Garden in Coll. Poems (1900) 699 A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! 1929 B. Carman Wild Garden 20 A lovesome thing is Madeleine, With night-dark eyes and hair. 1957 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 24 Nov. s6/7 A woman can curl up on a couch and look lovesome. 2004 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 9 Oct. 20 A redcurrant laden with shiny red berries is a lovesome feast for the eye. 4. Amorous. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > (of persons) inclined to love lovelyc1225 amorousa1393 lovesome1575 nutty1819 amatorious1893 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 6^v O Lustie lufe, thy lufesum obseruance So Ioyous is. 1720 D. Manley Power of Love ii. 150 Caton, who being naturally Lovesome, put her self in his way at every opportunity, so that he could not help saying soft Things to her. 1790 H. L. Piozzi Diary 18 Mar. in Thraliana (1942) II. ii. 762 I have seen Mrs Hervey the Woman whom della Crusca had Thoughts of marrying while they lived much together... The Lady seems Lovesome, & I fancy lends him money from Time to Time. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen vii. 104 Shrubs that twined their arms together in lovesome tangles. a1872 H. F. Chorley Brave Old Oak in Hammond (Indiana) Times (1938) 11 Feb. 14/8 They frolicked with lovesome swains. 1883 Longman's Mag. Sept. 533 While lovesome and moansome thereon spake and falter'd the dove to the dove. 2006 Guardian (Nexis) 7 Mar. 11 The two lonesome, lovesome cowboys of Brokeback Mountain. †B. n. A lovely or beautiful person. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person lovesomea1350 popinjaya1350 beautya1413 angel1502 good-looker1801 crusher1841 looker1893 a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 37 Þat lussom, when heo on me loh, ybend wax eyþer breȝe. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 398 Þen sayde þat lufsoum of lyth and lere. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1814 ‘Nay’..Quoþ þat lufsum vnder lyne. Derivatives † lovesomehead n. Obsolete rare = lovesomeness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > quality of being lovable > [noun] lovesomenessOE lovesomeheada1400 amiableness1528 amability1572 amiability1582 loveliness1657 lovableness1824 lovability1834 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 5792 (MED) I sal þaim bring fra þat thralhede, And into a land of lufsum-hede. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.OE
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