Somewhat clipped or shortened in nature; tending to clip or cut.
From 'clip' + '-some' (suffix meaning 'tending to be' or 'full of'). A rare or archaic formation using productive English morphology.
The '-some' suffix gave us words like 'handsome,' 'awesome,' and 'quarrelsome'—it's a productive old way of making adjectives that faded but never completely disappeared.
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