a. dial. [f. FLAY sb. + -SOME.] Frightful, dreadful.
1790. A. Wilson, Ep. to Picken, Poet. Wks. (1846), 106.
| Some said he was a camsheugh bool, | |
| Nae yarn nor rapes could haud him, | |
| When he got on his fleesome cowl, | |
| But may-be they misca’d him. |
1848. E. Brontë, Wuthering H., xxxiii. 266. It’s yon flaysome, graceless quean, ut’s witched ahr lad, wi’ her bold een, un her forrard ways—till.
1891. J. C. Atkinson, The Last of the Giant Killers, 150. York and Newcastle, both of which used to have such flaysome, ghostlike beings at home in them.
