Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Disgusting; loathsome.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ugly; hideous; disgusting; loathsome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Ugly; offensive; loathsome.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Ugly ;horrible ;disgusting ;offensive ,loathsome ,repellent .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Castle of the Quest, and that her old mistress came to her from out of the Sending Boat to fetch her away, and brought her aboard, and stripped her of her rich garments and sat facing her, drawing ugsome grimaces at her; and she thought she knew that her friends were all dead and gone, and she had none to pity or defend her.
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And aye they gaed, and on they rade, till they came to a dark and ugsome glen, where they stopped, and the lady lighted down.
The Blue Fairy Book 2003
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And aye they gaed, and on they rade, till they came to a dark and ugsome glen, where they stopped, and the lady lighted down.
Blue Fairy Book 1889
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And aye they gaed, and on they rade, till they came to a dark and ugsome glen, where they stopped, and the lady lighted down.
The Blue Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878
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When I came to her, I saw nought dreadful or ugsome about her: she was cheerful of countenance and courteous of demeanour, and greeted me kindly as one neighbour in the street of Wulstead might do to another.
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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Boat to fetch her away, and brought her aboard, and stripped her of her rich garments and sat facing her, drawing ugsome grimaces at her; and she thought she knew that her friends were all dead and gone, and she had none to pity or defend her.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865
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Ye're to come hame wi 'me frae this mou' o 'hell and ugsome (frightful) deith.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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I cudna help thinkin 'what, notwithstan'in' the cheenge o 'han's i' the story, lay still to the pairt o 'the knicht; but hoo was ony man, no to say a mere ugsome serpent, to mint at sic a thing till a leddy, whether she was in steel beets an' spurs or in lang train an 'silver slippers?
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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I found my Vivien full sick, and a weariful and ugsome time had I with her ere she recovered of her malady.
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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'For the young laird -- a feckless, ugsome, sickly wean he was, puir laddie -- a knight cam by, an' behoved to take him to the King.
The Caged Lion Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
oroboros commented on the word ugsome
And 'lo! the ugsome monster crept upon the manxome foe, drooling with anticipation of a toothsome, fulsome feast!
September 30, 2007
bilby commented on the word ugsome
Scots - loathsome.
December 8, 2007
yarb commented on the word ugsome
The pine siskin darted away and they walked on past, now, thank God, the end of ugsome Rosslyn Park...
- Malcolm Lowry, Gin and Goldenrod
July 13, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word ugsome
Even though I already loved this word, its being dialectical rather than slang somehow legitimizes it to me.
November 9, 2010
qms commented on the word ugsome
Maternal caresses and hugs come
To even the humblest of bugdom,
For like every other
A worm has a mother
Who cares not her offspring are ugsome.
August 18, 2018