ghoully

comparative more ghoully · superlative most ghoully

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of ghouly.

   Maybe you think it would be ghoully to begin our love-life in what may become our graves.

   1963, Philip Wylie, chapter 15, in Triumph, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 267–268

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   Dad gave me this ghoully lecture about all the designer drugs. He’s worse than the cops that come to the school.

   1988 March, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, “Gail Harmmon”, in Taji’s Syndrome, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 17

   “But we didn’t have any bananas,” Shaggy protested. “That ghoully gorilla jumped out of the trees before we could eat any.”

   2001, James Gelsey, chapter 6, in Scooby-Doo and the Ghostly Gorilla (Scooby-Doo), New York, N.Y.: Little Apple Paperbacks, Scholastic Inc., published January 2002, page 39

   Bright Night is the night we dress up as ghastly ghoully characters like witch-hunters and vampire dogs and gather in the Narrow Avoid to celebrate who we are by trying to scare each other witless!

   2008, Hiawyn Oram, “One Night to Fright Night”, in My Unwilling Witch Gets a Makeover (Rumblewick’s Diary), London: Orchard Books, →ISBN, page 7