disgusterous

English

Etymology

Coined by the author Roald Dahl and modeled after disgusting.

Adjective

disgusterous (comparative more disgusterous, superlative most disgusterous)

1. (rare) disgusting [from 1980s]
   • 1982, Roald Dahl, BFG:

     'That is the most disgusterous taste that is ever touching my teeth!'

   • 1994, Clarinet and Saxophone - Volume 19, page 36:

     Phosphor bronze is the most disgusterous stuff that has ever been employed for the purpose of springing keys; not only does it degrade quickly over the years but it also breaks easily, usually flush with the pillar.

   • 2012, Jehanne Wake, Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad, →ISBN:

     Some of the high-born English ladies could be as familiar in matters of love as the Duke: "horrid Charlotte Greville," condemned Charles Percy from Paris in 1815, “makes the most filthy & disgusterous love to the Duke of Wellington, sitting on his knee, patting his head & wrinkling her face into lascivious smiles."

   • 2017, Revolting Rhymers: Competition Winners, →ISBN:

     We were inundated with thousands of disgusterous entries!