Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Terrifying; frightful.
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- adjective Northern England, Scotland
Terrifying ;frightful .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Martha was beginning to tell me of certain "flaysome" looks also, but I desired not to hear of them.
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement King Shorter 1891
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Churstmas, flinging t 'precious gifts o' God under fooit i 'yer flaysome rages!
The Three Brontës May Sinclair 1904
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"Niver, -- he did goa to th 'door one day when Hiram's little lass went to borrow th' looaf tins, but shoo wor soa freetened, wol shoo ran hooam, an 'her mother says shoo believes shoo's gooin to have soor een; mun, he's flaysome to luk at, an' th 'child has niver been like hersen sin, an' shoo connot sleep ov a neet for dreamin abaat it."
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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It's fair flaysome that ye let 'em go on this gait.
Wuthering Heights 1847
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"There's nobbut t 'missis, and shoo'll not oppen't an ye mak yer flaysome dins till neeght."
Wuthering Heights 1847
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It's yon flaysome, graceless quean that's witched our lad wi 'her bold een and her forrard ways, till -- -- Nay, it fair brusts my heart!
Wuthering Heights 1847
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Gooid-for-naught madling! ye desarve pining fro 'this to Churstmas, flinging t' precious gifts o 'God under fooit i' yer flaysome rages!
Wuthering Heights 1847
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It's bonny behaviour, lurking amang t 'fields after twelve o' t 'night wi' that fahl, flaysome divil of a gipsy,
Wuthering Heights 1847
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It's bonny behaviour, lurking amang t 'fields, after twelve o' t 'night, wi' that fahl, flaysome divil of a gipsy, Heathcliff!
Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833
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It's yon flaysome, graceless quean, that's witched our lad, wi 'her bold een and her forrard ways -- till -- Nay! it fair brusts my heart!
Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833
gangerh commented on the word flaysome
Yorkshire - 'scary'.
February 3, 2008
dimã©lion commented on the word flaysome
for some reason this conjures up the image of a zombie, for me. but i'm adding this to my vocabulary because it sounds truly archaic.
May 22, 2009