Dangerous. Obs. in England.
1850. I knew it war a dangersome place for a well man to go in, much less a one-leg cripple; but I war ’tarmined that time to give a deal on the dead wood, and play my hand out.—H. C. Lewis (‘Madison Tensas’), ‘Odd Leaves,’ p. 172 (Phila.).
1851. An old lady, was along, ’lowed it was dangersome for me to stay on the deck, as I might scare the masheenery OUT O’ JINT.—J. J. Hooper, ‘Widow Rugby’s Husband,’ &c., p. 50.
1885. The duke said he had ciphered out his idea about how to run in daylight without it being dangersome to Jim.—Mark Twain, ‘Royalty on the Mississippi,’ Century Mag., xxix. 549/1. (N.E.D.)
