prancesome

English

Etymology

From prance +‎ -some.

Adjective

prancesome (comparative more prancesome, superlative most prancesome)

  1. (rare) Characterised or marked by prancing
    • 1928, Annual Report of the City Manager:
      Did you ever stop to wonder Why, in Berkeley, our police Are such handsome and such prancesome, Stalwart guardians of the peace?
    • 2005, Charles Potts, The Portable Potts, page 351:
      Now the hung and prancesome Yince of Wales was on deck and anxious to give me a natural.
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