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'orrid

'orrid is the pronunciation spelling of horrid.

Meaning of horrid

Adjective

horrid (comparative horrider or more horrid, superlative horridest or most horrid)

  1. (archaic) Bristling, rough, rugged.
    • His haughtie Helmet, horrid all with gold, // Both glorious brightnesse and great terror bredd.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31
  2. Causing horror or dread.
    • Not in the legions / Of horrid hell, can come a devil more damned / In evils, to top Macbeth.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  3. Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.
    • horrid weather

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Forms of 'orrid

comparativemore 'orrid
superlativemost 'orrid

Origin of 'orrid

A representation of the pronunciation of horrid by a speaker whose dialect lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]).

Questions about 'orrid

What is 'orrid the pronunciation spelling of?
'orrid is the pronunciation spelling of horrid.

Words near 'orrid in the dictionary

  1. 'ooman
  2. 'oomen
  3. 'ope
  4. 'orrible
  5. 'orribly
  6. 'orrid
  7. 'orse
  8. 'orses
  9. 'ospital
  10. 'ospitals
  11. 'oss

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