gashful

English

Etymology

gash +‎ -ful

Adjective

gashful (comparative more gashful, superlative most gashful)

1. (obsolete) ghastly; hideous; frightful.
   • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot:

     gashfull, horrid, meagre, terrible, ugly shape

   • 1859, John Delavan Bryant, Redpemtion, A Poem:

     This premised, up the gashful horror sprang,
     Like a tall pyramid of fire, belch'd from
     The entrails of Hawaiian hills

   • 1882, Sophie May, Janet, a Poor Heiress:

     a gashful sight met our gaze! There was that poor woman stretched out on the kitchen floor, her face covered with blood, where she'd fainted, and hit her forehead against the sharp edge of the table

References

• “gashful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.