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18 Mar 2012, 4:58 pm

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18 Mar 2012, 5:03 pm

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18 Mar 2012, 5:15 pm

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Etymology
From Middle English wlātsom (“disgusting, repulsive, repugnant, abominable, hateful, loathsome”), from Middle English wlāte (“nausea, disgust, repugnance, loath”), from Old English wlǣtta (“loathing, nausea, eructation, heartburn,”).

Adjective
wlatsome (comparative more wlatsome, superlative most wlatsome)

(obsolete) Loathsome, disgusting, hateful, abominable, repulsive, repugnant

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18 Mar 2012, 5:35 pm

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Wow, never come across wlatsome before. Will probably start slipping it into conversation just for the wl-ness of it.

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18 Mar 2012, 5:40 pm

Yeah, Lostgirl1986 played "owl" yesterday but then changed it for something else, thinking it was a dead end, but I'd found "wlatsome" by then. Been desperate to show that off ever since!

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18 Mar 2012, 5:43 pm

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18 Mar 2012, 5:43 pm

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