curlsome

English

Etymology

From curl +‎ -some.

Adjective

curlsome (comparative more curlsome, superlative most curlsome)

1. Characterised or marked by curls
   • 1918, Eric Paul Schulze, Vers Ego:

     And time again My bluest lady fair Serenely still passed by And felt her goldlike Hair Ah! here a curlsome smile meekly awhile.

   • 1996, Serge K. Katenev, International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves: Volume 17, Issue 1:

     Physics of H-eigenwaves in a periodic iris-loaded circular waveguide is generally characterized using a number of the typical power flows. Both the reflectionless flows and the ones contra-directional over the guide's cross-section are included, as well as the curlsome ones and others.

   • 2007, Erik Olsen, Surf During Lunch:

     Well, then take a qu[i]ck gander over at the Surf Channel, an online resource for everything curlsome and frothy.

   • 2010, Susie Groom-Smith, Face at the Window:

     [...] snifflemas daisies and troublesome coughfulness; hibernating curlsome and logful smokefulness.