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ˈshuddersome, a.
[f. shudder + -some.]
Causing a shudder. Also transf., inclined to shudder. Hence ˈshuddersomely adv.
1893Strand Mag. VI. 694 Below the nose a pale, ghastly, half-open mouth. It was shuddersome. 1893Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Dec. 11/2 There is something ghastly, something shuddersome about the little piece. 1903A. M. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise ii. 52 One of those shuddersomely refined affairs that are supposed to be meat and drink to the giddy suburbanite. 1941I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang xxii. 168 Eastern daggers of shuddersome shape, weapons of many nations. 1969O. Blakiston For crying out Shroud iii. 29, I don't..really feel so shuddersome about the smallest of bald patches. |