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malaˈgrug(o)rous, a. jocular.
[? Distortion of It. malaguroso, unfortunate. But cf. Sc. malagruized ‘rumpled, disordered’ (E.D.D.).]
Dismal, lugubrious. Hence malaˈgrugrously adv.
1818Lockhart in Blackw. Mag. III. 407 He writes more malagrugrously than Dante. 1826Ibid. XX. 327 He looketh malagrugorous and world-wearied. 1839Lockhart Ballantyne-humbug 106 A certain malagrugrous exposition of his own views..drawn up by James Ballantyne in..1826. |