"gashly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Perhaps a dialectal alteration of ghastly, by association with gash.",
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      "form": "more gashly",
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      "form": "most gashly",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1824, Washington Irving, Tales of a Traveller",
          "text": "My ladies' maid, who was troubled with nerves, declared she could never sleep alone in such a \"gashly, rummaging old building;\" and the footman, who was a kind-hearted young fellow, did all in his power to cheer her up.",
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        {
          "ref": "1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 243",
          "text": "I have a great mind to break all your gashly images about the head of your fine Miss, in her silks and satins;’—mistaking his lay-figure for a living model of the highest sort.",
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          "ref": "1921, William Patterson White, The Heart of the Range",
          "text": "Listen here, Swing, old-timer, I got a long and gashly tale of wickedness to pour into those lily-white mule ears of yores.",
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        "Ghastly, horrible."
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    {
      "form": "more gashly",
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      "form": "most gashly",
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        "superlative"
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          "ref": "1824, Washington Irving, Tales of a Traveller",
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        },
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        }
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        "Ghastly, horrible."
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