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noun
A (little) bit; somewhat; a tad.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, nonstandard, regional, uncountable
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verb
To be powerful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, intransitive
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History
From might + -some, perhaps for mite + -some.
From Middle English mightsomen, mihtsomen, apparently an alteration of Middle English nühtsomen, from Old English ġenyhtsumian (“to abound, have abundance, suffice”), from Proto-Germanic *ganuhtsumōną (“to suffice”), from *nuhtiz (“sufficiency, enoughness”), from Proto-Indo-European *eneḱ-, *neḱ- (“to reach, attain”). Cognate with Old High German ginuhtsamōn (“to be sufficient”).
