oglesome

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A form of ogglesome — Awesome; dreadful.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

adjectiveoglesome (comparative more oglesome, superlative most oglesome)

comparative more oglesome · superlative most oglesome

  1. alternativerareAlternative form of ogglesome.

    No wonder his oglesome partner in highspeed detection, Susan Branca (Vera Farmiga), keeps looking at him as if he were either an alien or a Mulder.

    2004, New York - Volume 37
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    These apparitions were, after all, but shadows cast by the stout islanders told off by Colonel Maxse to administer the Bengal fire that was the factor chiefly employed in producing these oglesome eye-delusions; [...]

    1888, William Beatty-Kingston, A Wanderer's Notes - Volume 2

    In Real Life, it helps if you can do flashy shuffles and flutter your chips but then again it helps if your breasts are oglesome and your hair behaves.

    2010, Tyne O'Connell, Googling Arthur

Origin

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APA

oglesome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oglesome

MLA

“oglesome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oglesome. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “oglesome,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oglesome.

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