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Dear Bingley: I am surprised to hear that you dislike "winsome". I think it is a very fine word, and entirely complimentary. It took some real slobs to change that word.Almost as bad as making a dirty word out of "gay".
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Per M-W on line: generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence
I could easy see that being annoying, particularly if the winsome person was undeserving of the approval gained by the childlike charm and innocence.
How would you define losesome?
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Dear Faldage: A loathesome choice of antonyms. It seems too much of a stretch from Germanic root of "win-" meaning attractive to "win" meaning to gain victory.
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I have a cousin called Winsome. She's not.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Winsome is also used to mean coy and endearing here in Québec but it is a word that is rarely heard.
Twee...I like it. We don't use that word but if you gents don't mind I'll adopt it for use in the future.
Frou-frou in French Québec = frills made out of any material. Generally applied to kiddy clothing. Little girl undies ALWAYS have des frou-frous.
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A word of my father's:
fooff, n., alt. foof; the 'oo' pron. like the 'oo' in "good": someone who farts in the bathtub to make a bubble bath.
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Faldage quotes: generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence
OK now think of not real childlike charm and innocence but Hollywood's mock-up of it or an attempt by an adult woman to exert the same childlike charm and innocence and you get the general idea, to me, of winsome.
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Hollywood's idea of heaven is my idea of hell.
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My idea of heaven has allus been sort of like a golf course without any holes.
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My idea of hell is compulsion to sing hymns for all eternity.
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