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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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†UNFORDERSOME, adj. Also unfurthersome, -fothersum. [ʌn′fordərsʌm]

1. Of weather: not propitious for the growth of crops, etc., unseasonable, unfavourable (Dmf. 1825 Jam., unfothersum; Abd. 1932).

2. Slow, tardy, causing delay or hindrance; of a horse: unmanageable (Uls. 1880 Patterson Gl., 1905 E.D.D., “applied to a horse that cannot be got to go quickly.”).Slk. 1819 Hogg Tales (1874) 142:
As the snow had been accumulating all day, so as to render walking very unfurthersome, it was that time before I reached home.Sc. 1864 Carlyle Frederick iv. v.:
Finding it [a wig] unfurthersome for actual business in battle.