Meaning of malagrugrous | Babel Free

Definitions

Dismal; gloomy; grim; forbidding.

rare

Examples

““Ah! ” said he, “the Crafty and James Ballantyne have been so much connected in business, that Patsman would be sure to hear of anything so important; and I like the notion of his hearing it, and not sending me one of his malagrugrous billets-doux . He could as soon keep his eyebrows in their place if you told him there was a fire in his nursery.””

“The Pamphleteers seem to lay great stress on a certain malagrugrous exposition of his own views and prospects, drawn up by James Ballantyne in February 1826, when he was eager to have the Company sequestrated at once, which, but for Sir Walter's heroic feeling and spirit, it no doubt would have been.”

““Aye, well, ye were a-looking as malagrugrous as me old master when he were a-reaching for his leather, so I thought I’d best talk soft,” Will said.”

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