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coyote-ugly

coyote-ugly is the rare form of coyote ugly.

Meaning of coyote ugly

Adjective

coyote ugly (comparative more coyote ugly (rare), superlative most coyote ugly)

  1. (US, derogatory, slang) Very ugly.
    • A girl was coyote ugly if, when a man got too drunk, picked her up, took her to bed, and woke up with her asleep on his arm in the morning, he'd chew his arm off to escape without waking her up.2003, Georgina Gentry, To Tame A Texan, Zebra Books, →ISBN

Forms of coyote-ugly

superlativemost coyote-ugly
comparative (rare)more coyote-ugly

Questions about coyote-ugly

What is coyote-ugly the rare form of?
Coyote-ugly is the rare form of coyote ugly.

Words near coyote-ugly in the dictionary

  1. coyote tobacco
  2. coyote ugly
  3. coyote willow
  4. coyote's rope
  5. coyote's ropes
  6. coyote-ugly
  7. coyotebush
  8. coyotebushes
  9. coyoted
  10. coyoteing
  11. coyoteite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coyote-ugly (page history and authors); coyote ugly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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