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

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

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

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

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)

‘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 Yonge, Charlotte Mary