fleysome, flaysome, a. dial.
(ˈfleɪsəm)
[f. flay n. + -some.]
Frightful, dreadful.
| 1790 A. Wilson Ep. to Picken Poet. Wks. (1846) 106 He got on his fleesome cowl. 1848 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights xxxiii. 266 Yon flaysome graceless quean. 1891 Atkinson Last Giant-Killers 150 Such flaysome, ghostlike beings. |