hellsome

Marked by hell or hellishness

Adjective

  1. 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

more hellsome most hellsome hell-some

Adverb

  1. 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:

Forms

more hellsome most hellsome hell-some