(dated, , or, _, used in, _, Scotland) An act of terrifying.
(dated, , or, _, used in, _, Scotland) An act of terrifying.
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A dated Scottish adjective meaning easily frightened or timid, equivalent to timorous in standard English. The -some suffix was a productive adjective-forming element in older Scots, as in frolicsome, gruesome. Now archaic and mainly encountered in 19th-century Scottish literature.