ghoully

English

Adjective

ghoully (comparative more ghoully, superlative most ghoully)

  1. Alternative spelling of ghouly.
    • 1963, Philip Wylie, chapter 15, in Triumph, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 267–268:
      Maybe you think it would be ghoully to begin our love-life in what may become our graves.
    • 1988 March, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, “Gail Harmmon”, in Taji’s Syndrome, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 17:
      Dad gave me this ghoully lecture about all the designer drugs. He’s worse than the cops that come to the school.
    • 2001, James Gelsey, chapter 6, in Scooby-Doo and the Ghostly Gorilla (Scooby-Doo), New York, N.Y.: Little Apple Paperbacks, Scholastic Inc., published January 2002, page 39:
      “But we didn’t have any bananas,” Shaggy protested. “That ghoully gorilla jumped out of the trees before we could eat any.”
    • 2008, Hiawyn Oram, “One Night to Fright Night”, in My Unwilling Witch Gets a Makeover (Rumblewick’s Diary), London: Orchard Books, →ISBN, page 7:
      Bright Night is the night we dress up as ghastly ghoully characters like witch-hunters and vampire dogs and gather in the Narrow Avoid to celebrate who we are by trying to scare each other witless!
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