hellsome
Marked by hell or hellishness
Adjective
- Marked by hell or hellishness
- At last he said, " As I'm the darned idiot that's going to sottle on these two hellsome ranches to please you, and as you're the gaudy spark wot's clarin' west to hide your sorrer in the busy hants of men, I guess the...
- Ab'nisha, the leader of the hellsome pack, knew this bindi. - 2014, Armani Mondragón, Evolving:
Origin
From hell + -some.
Forms
Adverb
- In a hellsome manner; hellishly
- Like an awful alligator / Breathing fire and screeching hell-some, / With a pack of hounds. - 2015, Charles Godfrey Leland, Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land: