awsome
English edit
Adjective edit
awsome (comparative more awsome, superlative most awsome)
- (Scotland) Archaic form of awesome.
- 1825, The Scots Magazine, volume 97, page 295:
- “Aye, Sibbie, it was an awsome sight,” quoth Archy.
- 1846, Robert Mackenzie Daniel, The Young Baronet:
- The landlord nodded gravely, then spoke aloud:— “I was out last night; it was indeed an awsome time.
- 1908, “ferdful”, in James A. H. Murray et al., editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IV, London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 160:
- 1. objectively. Inspiring fear; awsome, dreadful; = Fearful 1.
- Misspelling of awesome.