awsome

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English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

awsome (comparative more awsome, superlative most awsome)

  1. (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.
  2. Misspelling of awesome.
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