English Regional, Lincolnshire, East Anglian Suffolk
Ghastly; horrible, frightful.
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in Robert Wilmot (b. c1550), playwright and Church of England clergyman. Perhaps an alteration of ghastful, by association with gash.
Definition of gashful in US English:
gashful
adjectiveˈɡaʃf(ʊ)l
English Regional, Lincolnshire, East Anglian Suffolk
Ghastly; horrible, frightful.
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in Robert Wilmot (b. c1550), playwright and Church of England clergyman. Perhaps an alteration of ghastful, by association with gash.