ogerhunch

[prettygoodword]

ogerhunch - n., a frightful or loathsome creature.


Especially, according to Thomas Edmondston's 1866 Glossary of the Shetland and Orkney Dialect, a bat.

...

I can think of a lot of loathsome creatures, but bats are not among them. Origin unknown. Have fun with it.

---L.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Not an ogre's hunch? Or even an ogre-sized hunch?

That's what it should mean!

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Alas, but so it is.

---L.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful word. I shall have to find an opportunity to use it. Good thing I'm a fantasy writer. ;->

Cool neepery on the wwftd dictionary. *adding to bookmarks*