"look a fright" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: looks a fright [present, singular, third-person], looking a fright [participle, present], looked a fright [participle, past], looked a fright [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} look a fright (third-person singular simple present looks a fright, present participle looking a fright, simple past and past participle looked a fright)
  1. (dated, informal) To look terrible, to look very dishevelled. Tags: dated, informal Related terms: look like something the cat dragged in Translations (Translations): näyttää linnunpelättimeltä (Finnish), faire peur à voir (French), wyglądać jak straszydło [imperfective] (Polish)
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