What is frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang] called?
awful — Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang]. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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