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单词 ugglesome
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ugglesomeadj.

/ˈʌɡ(ə)lsʌm/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s vgle-; 1800s ogglesome. β. 1500s–1600s ouglesome.
Etymology: apparently < uggle adj. + -some suffix1.
Now rare.
Fearful, horrible, gruesome.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adjective]
atelOE
grislya1150
atelichc1175
grisfula1300
ugly13..
hideous1303
horrible1303
ghastlyc1305
stout1338
horrendc1420
ugsomec1425
grisilc1440
execrable1490
uggle1499
horrious?1520
uglisome1530
ugglesome1561
gruesome1570
grisy1590
gashfulc1600
horrid1602
ghast1622
gashly1627
horrific1653
horrendous1661
horrorous1756
horrifying1791
horrorish1847
grauly1848
α.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Ji.iii Some are compelled by their fathers to take olde men full of diseases, vglesome & weywarde.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iv. sig. Tt.iiii A face darke, vglesome, vnpleasaunt and to be shonned for yll.
1576 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (rev. ed.) II. 1904/2 When I beholde the amiable countenance of Christ..ye vglesome [1563 vgsome] face of death doth not greatly trouble me.
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Qiiv They shal be punished in fire and brimstone amongest the terrible Company of vgglesome Deuils.
1591 P. Stubbes Christal Glasse sig. Cijv As though she saw some filthie vgglesome, and displeasant thing.
1617 J. Moore Mappe Mans Mortal. i. viii. 58 It shewed..our vglesome shape, most monstrous to beholde.
1855 Chambers's Jrnl. 7 July 13 This ‘ugglesome beast’ seldom troubles me, for his dwelling is in some secluded cleft of the stone.1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 14 Nov. That weird and ogglesome beast the Wangdoodlum.β. 1575 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians f. 260 In the wilde wildernes, which being burnt vp with the heat of the Sunne, yeldeth an ouglesome habitation to the Monkes.1608 J. Dod & R. Cleaver Plaine Expos. Prov. xi–xii. 69 In the froward he seeth the work of the diuell, whereby they are depraued and made most vile & ouglesome.1622 S. Ward Life of Faith in Death 26 When I beholde the ouglesome face of Death, I am afrayd, but when I consider Christes amiable Countenance, I take heart againe. [Cf. quot. 1576 at α. .]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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