GROTESQUE, GROTESQUENESS
ADJECTIVES
► BURLESQUE droll in look, manner, or speech; jocular; odd, grotesque → 1656 obs.
► FANTASTICAL having the appearance of being devised by extravagant fancy; eccentric, quaint, or grotesque in design, conception, construction, or adornment → 1599 obs.
► GROTTY ugly, dirty, or offensive; displeasing; disgusting; grotesque, shocking → 1964 Amer. sl.
NOUNS
► BABERY grotesque ornamentation in architecture and books; grotesque absurdity → c1384 obs.
► BABOONERY grotesque ornamentation → 1383 obs.
► CREEPSHOW horrible or grotesque; used to describe a situation or person that fits the bill → Brit. sl.
► FANTASTICALITY eccentricity, grotesqueness, oddity → 1592
► GROTESQUERIE ► GROTESQUERY grotesque objects collectively; grotesque quality → 1654
► MARMOSET a grotesque figure in a building → 1687 obs.
► PUNCHINELLO a grotesque or absurd thing
► SAUCE-CROON a ridiculous or grotesque object → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TANTILEIRUM a big grotesque object or erection → 1827 Sc.
► UFRONGIE ► UFRUNGIE a grotesque object; a person of forbidding aspect → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► UG an object of disgust; a bad or grotesque appearance; a person of disagreeable, disgusting manners → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► DRACULA a grotesque or terrifying person, etc. → 1897
► FLIBBERTIGIBBET a person resembling the character so called in Scott’s ‘Kenilworth’: a person of grotesque appearance and restless manners; an impish-looking, mischievous, and flighty urchin → 1826
► FRIGHT a person or thing of a shocking, grotesque, unkempt, or ridiculous appearance → 1751 colloq.
► GUY a grotesque-looking, ill-dressed, ugly, or ridiculous person, esp. an old man; hence, a person who is an object of ridicule or derision; broadly, a fool → 1823 Amer. sl.
► MUPPET a retarded, incapacitated or grotesque person; generally applied to hospital inmates, mentally deranged prisoners, or to unattractive teenagers by their peers → Brit. sl.
► PUNCHINELLO a grotesque or absurd person → 1669