| 释义 |
† ougle, a. Obs.
Also 5 ogel, oggel, 6 owgle.
[app. related to oglie, ouglie, owgly, obs. forms of ugly a.; but the form in -el, -le is difficult to account for.]
Ugly, repulsive, frightful.
14..Chaucer's Clerk's T. 617 (Corp. MS.) Þis Oggel [MS. Lansd. ogel, Ellesm., etc. vgly, etc.] sergeaunt. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 111 He lookes like a Tyger; a man would thinke he would eate one, his countenance is so ougle. 1554J. Proctor tr. Vincentius To Rdr., How owgle and carrion⁓lean ye are to se. |