variant of UGGLESOME
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ETYMOLOGY
variant of ugglesome, from obsolete English uggle horrible (from Middle English uggen to inspire horror or disgust, to fear, from Old Norse ugga to fear) + English -some; akin to Old Norse uggr fear
EXAMPLE
From: Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Sometime Bishop of Worcester, Martyr, 1555
Edited for the Parker Society by the Rev. George Elwes Corrie, 1844
Seventh Sermon Preached Before King Edward the Sixth, April Nineteenth, 1549
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ETYMOLOGY
variant of ugglesome, from obsolete English uggle horrible (from Middle English uggen to inspire horror or disgust, to fear, from Old Norse ugga to fear) + English -some; akin to Old Norse uggr fear
EXAMPLE
From: Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Sometime Bishop of Worcester, Martyr, 1555
Edited for the Parker Society by the Rev. George Elwes Corrie, 1844
Seventh Sermon Preached Before King Edward the Sixth, April Nineteenth, 1549
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