fleysome, flaysome,a.dial.|ˈfleɪsəm| [f. flay n. + -some.] Frightful, dreadful. 1790A. Wilson Ep. to PickenPoet.Wks. (1846) 106 He got on his fleesome cowl.1848E. Brontë Wuthering Heights xxxiii. 266 Yon flaysome graceless quean.1891Atkinson Last Giant-Killers 150 Such flaysome, ghostlike beings.