ugsome
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of ugsome
1350–1400; Middle English, equivalent to ugg ( en ) to fear, cause loathing (< Old Norse ugga to fear, dread; cf. ugly) + -some -some 1
Example Sentences
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"Since she has lain into your arms, She shall not lye in mine; Since she has kiss'd your ugsome mouth, She never shall kiss mine."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
I found my Vivien full sick, and a weariful and ugsome time had I with her ere she recovered of her malady.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
‘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.
From The Caged Lion by Charlotte Mary Yonge
The suns and rains had not dealt kindly with him, and now the face looked like nothing earthly, as I saw it in the moonlight of the ugsome vault.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
An ugsome looking cretur it wor, an' I wor mortal skeared, howdsomever, when measter screeched an' fell, I forgot to look on 'un agin—I wor so skeared about 'un.
From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. by Susanna Moodie
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