Yorkshire dialect adjective meaning ugly, foul, or morally bad. It covers physical unattractiveness through to wickedness or filth, much as its ancestor foul does in standard English. Now largely archaic even within Yorkshire dialect, appearing mainly in historical collections and 19th-century regional writing.
He looked a faal mess after a week out on the moors with no shelter.
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(Yorkshire) Ugly; foul; evil.
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