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uglification

noun

Etymology

From uglify + -ication.

  1. derived from uggligr — “fearful, dreadful, horrible in appearance”
  2. inherited from ugly
  3. suffixed as uglify — “ugly + fy”
  4. suffixed as uglification — “uglify + ication”

Definitions

  1. The process of being made ugly or uglified.

    • I go to put in readiness the feast Kept to the honour of our goddess Famine, Where, for more glory, let the ceremony Take place of the uglification of the Queen.
    • There is an amusing side to this terrible threat to the countryside. So long as the uglification and slummification of England was confined to the industrial centres, few of the really best people troubled themselves.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for uglification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA