ugsome

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈʌɡsəm/

Definition of ugsome

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)Ugly; horrible; disgusting; offensive, loathsome, repellent.
    “This is hell, this is the image of death, this is hell, ſuch an euil fauored face, ſuch an ugſom countenance, ſuche an horrible viſage our ſauiour Chriſt ſaw of death and hell in the gardein.”
    “Still, it's a cosy country, / unracked by riots or strikes / and backward at drug-taking: / I've heard of a dozen lands / where life sounds far more ugsome, / fitter goals for your disgust.”
    “We have italicised the more ugsome parts of the S.S.C. paper so that those of our readers who are too busy mountaineering to read the whole thing may grasp the fundamental psychopathology of the unattractive predators that have battened onto us.”

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Etymology

From Middle English ugsom, equivalent to ug + -some.

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