gruesome

gruesome
gruesome 1560s, from M.E. gruen "feel horror, shudder" (c.1300); not recorded in Old English or Norse, possibly from M.Du. gruwen or M.L.G. gruwen "shudder with fear" (Cf. Ger. grausam "cruel"), or from a Scandinavian source (Cf. Dan. grusom "cruel," grue "to dread," though others hold that these are Low German loan-words). One of the many Scottish words popularized in England by Scott's novels.

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