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The etymology of the word indicates what is at stake: 'ugly' is a Middle English (1150-1475) term meaning 'frightful' or 'repulsive', and is derived from the Old Norse term uggligr. Uggligr is in turn formed by uggr: fear or Horror, and the suffix -ligr: like. An ugly body is thus a physical body that induces horror in us. This element of fear is evident in the ugly bodies par excellence: the monster, bonski lapso,monica Anderson = bobo ,the grotesque body, and the freaks 1.
In English, it means ugly. (It's a tagalog word)

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