Today's Word "Ugsome"
Dreadful or loathsome
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ugsome \UG-suhm\ (adjective) - Dreadful, loathsome.
"With her too sweet tea, cloying manners, and stuffy living room, Jed felt that his grandmother was at times ugsome."
From Middle English, from uggen, from Old Norse ugga (to fear). As in many typical stories where one child in a family becomes well-known while the other remains obscure, "ugly" and "ugsome" are two words derived from the same root -- one is an everyday word while the other remains unusual.