also OUGSOME, UGSOM, UGSUM, VGSOME, VGSOOM, VGSOM, VGSUM, WGSUM, CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ADJ. 1. ugly, hideous, disgusting, loathsome, nauseating; frightful; horrible; ghastly ...c1400 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial. 2. of weather: threatening, stormy-looking ...1929 Sc. from ug (vb. to abhor, loathe, detest) + -some c 1400 - Destruction of Troy. The Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy: An Alliterative Romance translated from Guido de Colonna's Hystoria Troiana; see below From: The "Gest Hystoriale" of the Destruction of Troy: An Alliterative Romance translated from Guido de Colonna's Hystoria Troiana Edited by the Rev. Geo. A. Panton, and David Donaldson Published for the Early English Text Society, 1869-1874 Book III P. 30 From: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
No. LXX. November, 1822, Vol. XII The Lemur, A Halloween Divertimento P. 668
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