ugsome

American  

[uhg-suhm] / ˈʌg səm /

adjective

Scot. and North England.

1. horrid; loathsome.

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Other Word Forms

• ugsomeness
  noun

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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ugsome

And aye they rode, and on they rode, till they came to a dark and ugsome glen, where they stopped, and the lady lighted down.

From More English Fairy Tales by Batten, John Dickson

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 Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Wi' a' his band, to the Holy Land   He's boune wi' merry din, His shouther's doss a Christ's cross,   In his breist an ugsome sin.

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George

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 Moodie, Susanna