scandiculous

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1. USdialectalScandalous and ridiculous.

   Thursday I wrote a scandiculous note to Rebecca [Barbour].

   1852 November 27, Ann McMath, edited by C. Stewart Doty, The Journal of Ann McMath: An Orphan in a New York Parsonage in the 1850s, Albany, N.Y.: Excelsior Editions, published 2011, →ISBN, page 78

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   Yes, she is another pretty subject for contemplation. It is perfectly scandiculous to think of how she has been with the army all the way from Ypsilanti, been right in camp all the time, doing no good (which she might if she had only kept herself in the right place, the Hospital), not even cooking for herself & the Captain.

   1863 January 9, Donald W. Disbrow, quoting Mrs. Nixon, “Vett Noble of Ypsilanti: A Clerk for General Sherman”, in John T. Hubbell, editor, Civil War History, volume XIV, number 1, Iowa City, I.A.: University of Iowa, published 1968, page 18

   I wanted to holler; but, thinks I to myself, I'm a relation of the corpse, if it is only by marriage, and I ain't goin' to spoil the solemnity of this funeral if I never sets eyes on that scandiculous hussy again!

   1881, Arlo Bates, Patty's Perversities, Boston, M.A.: James R. Osgood and Company, page 92

   I was so glad to see him I could have hugged him. Yes, I know that sounds scandiculous and I suppose if I had tried it his toe head would have disappeared over the hills as if something worse than small pox was after him.

   1911 March 13, Elizabeth Corey, edited by Philip L. Gerber, Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909–1919, Iowa City, I.A.: University of Iowa Press, published 1990, →ISBN, page 125

   "I reckon," Judd answered with feeling and added "Goin' tew convert him, too? Obie Fugate ses that hit's scandiculous the way he carries on and Preacher Paul that he has 'a hard heart and a reprobated mind'."

   1921, Eliot H[arlow] Robinson, Smiling Pass: Being a Further Account of the Career of "Smiles": a Rose of the Cumberlands, Boston, M.A.: The Page Company, page 146

   My mom(67) just called my baby brother(19months) scandiculous!! What a generational gap!!!

   2010 July 12, @michelle4real, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 30 Dec 2025