orsum

English

Adjective

orsum (comparative more orsum or orsumer, superlative most orsum or orsumest)

  1. (especially Australia and New Zealand, slang) Alternative spelling of awesome.
    • 2002 June 1, Wilbur07, “Waves, particles.”, in brin-l‎[1], The Mail Archive:
      I'm absolutelly effing orsum.
    • 2006 February 28, TOYOPET, “Beach Hop '06 - few pics up”, in oldschool.co.nz‎[2]:
      fucken orsum weekend, with no liquor ban... cops not pulling anyone over for doing skids in the street etc.
    • 2021 May 6, P_U_K_E_K_O, Reddit‎[3], archived from the original on 6 May 2021:
      Ruru in quite a mess after getting caught up in a parapara tree. New Zealand Bird Rescue removed the sticky substance and berries, gave him a thorough bath and he is now fully waterproof and ready to go home. NZ Bird Rescue - you’re O for Orsum.
    • 2021, Phyllis King, Scarlet Stiletto: The Thirteenth Cut‎[4], →ISBN:
      Tooday was an orsum day! The best day ever!

Latin

Participle

ōrsum

  1. inflection of ōrsus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

References

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