ugsome (adj)
Horrible, loathsome.
"Neda had served hotchpotch, a soup thick as porridge and even less appetizing, no matter how much her father praised it. The neck of one of her poor lambs drenched in too many vegetables made an ugsome stew, to Rose's way of thinking."
--Liz Curtis Higgs, Thorn in My Heart
The snow around here is melting at last, but meanwhile, it's pretty ugsome. As the mounds of frozen white fractals (not so white anymore) dissolve into puddles, they reveal flotsam and jetsam that's been buried since the first snowpocalypse shortly after Christmas: a denuded evergreen tree, a dead computer monitor, a broken clock, a forsaken doll, and a huge variety of twisted wrappers, soiled containers, and canine excrement.
As a frequent pedestrian in an urban snow-pack, which would I rather have: a frigid, pristine world of difficult mobility or a more temperate realm of sodden filth but free-ranging locomotion? The question answers itself, really.
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