ownsome
/ˈəʊns(ə)m/pronoun (in phrase on (or by) one's ownsome) informal
All alone: it wasn’t fair to leave one chap on his ownsome...
- You appear to be spending Christmas day all on your ownsome.
- If you see me in the street and engage in conversation I will probably freeze into polite fear and smile inanely until I can get away to be on my lonely ownsome.
- You can discover these odd delights on your ownsome.
Origin
1920s: blend of own and lonesome.
- proton acceptor
- protonate
- protonation
- proton-donating
- proton donator
- proton donor
- protonema
- protonemal
- protonematal
- protoneolithic
- protonephridial
- protonephridium
- protonephron
- protonephros
- proton gradiometer
- protonic
- protonically
- proto-Nile
- proton magnetometer
- protonmotive
- protonmotive force
- protonosphere
- protonotarial
- protonotariat
- protonotary