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God-awful, a. slang (orig. U.S.).|ˌgɒdˈɔːfʊl|
Also God awful, Godawful.
[f. god n. + awful a.]
Terrible; extremely unpleasant. (In quot. 1878 the sense is ‘impressively large’.)
1878J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxvii. 611 Put thirty acres..into wheat, and went to work with a hurrah in 1874 to make a God-awful crop. 1897C. M. Flandrau Harvard Episodes 88 Ellis is such a God awful fool. 1930W. S. Maugham Breadwinner ii. 124 Your affairs are in a god-awful mess. 1946‘S. Russell’ To Bed with Grand Music i. 14 Listen to the most godawful programmes on the radio. 1958R. Graves in Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. p. x/4 The credible and vivid story that any context (red-brick, yellow-brick, or otherwise God-awful) offers. 1959P. McCutchan Storm South iv. 63, I heard the most God-awful racket above my head. |