Meaning of orful | Babel Free
Examples
“I ain't bin werry well lately, and, to crown the hole, I was cort in the Lizzard, I think⟳, as they called it, on that awful Munday nite, and that was pretty nearly a settler for both my old bones and my breth, and might ha' bin quite so, if one of the werry kindest Members of the old Copperashun as I nos on, who had bin a dining with a jolly party on 'em, hadn't kindly directed my notise to about a harf bottle-full of werry fine old Port, with the remarkabel kind words, "That's just about what you wants, Mr. ROBERT, to take⟳ you ome safely this most orful nite!"”
“"Gorblimey, it's bleedin' orful," said they.”
“"That's a bally orful way to get⟳ even with a henemy!" exclaimed a stoker, who sat on the edge of the forward⟳ hatch.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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