gashful
/ˈɡaʃf(ʊ)l/Now English regional (Suffolk, East Anglian, and Lincolnshire )
adjective
Ghastly; horrible, frightful.
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in Robert Wilmot (b. c1550), playwright and Church of England clergyman. Perhaps an alteration of ghastful, by association with gash.
- pot ear
- pot earth
- potecary
- poteen
- pot egg
- Potemkin
- Potemkin village
- potence
- potency
- potent
- potentacy
- potentate
- potent counter potent
- potented
- potential
- potential barrier
- potential difference
- potential divider
- potential energy
- potential flow
- potential function
- potential gradient
- potentialise
- potentiality
- potentialize