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Definition of Gashly
1. hideous [adj] - See also: hideous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gashly
Literary usage of Gashly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Eng.] Their warm and wanton embraces of living bodies ill agreed with their
offerings Dus manibus, to gashly ghosts. Fuller, Pisgah Sight, IV. vli. 27. ..."
2. The Musical World (1877)
"When she left off the people all Got up and clapped and shouted; They seemed
quite glad to find that she The gashly thing had routed. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"See Go-now. *Gentlemen's-and-ladies'-fingers. Arum maculatum, L., Cuckoo-pint.
Cf. Lady's-Finger (2). —SW (Farley.) Ghastly (pronounced gashly}. ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1901)
"... and Miss Emmeline gashly. The three carriages arrived at the same moment from
different directions. They were new and wonderfully shiny, and the brasses ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Eng.] Their warm and wanton embraces of living bodies ill agreed with their
offerings Dus manibus, to gashly ghosts. Fuller, Pisgah Sight, IV. vli. 27. ..."
6. The Musical World (1877)
"When she left off the people all Got up and clapped and shouted; They seemed
quite glad to find that she The gashly thing had routed. ..."
7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"See Go-now. *Gentlemen's-and-ladies'-fingers. Arum maculatum, L., Cuckoo-pint.
Cf. Lady's-Finger (2). —SW (Farley.) Ghastly (pronounced gashly}. ..."
8. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1901)
"... and Miss Emmeline gashly. The three carriages arrived at the same moment from
different directions. They were new and wonderfully shiny, and the brasses ..."
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