marmsome

English

Etymology

From marm +‎ -some.

Adjective

marmsome (comparative more marmsome, superlative most marmsome)

  1. (rare, archaic or chiefly dialectal) Characteristic or typical of a marm; motherly; matronly
    • 1918, Caroline P. Atkinson, Letters of Susan Hale:
      He was surrounded by three females, all his abject slaves ! a cook, a sort of marmsome housekeeper, who waited at table, and his typewriter amanuensis, who was subserviently tyrannical, as she should be.
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