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(UK dialectal, Scotland) Loathsome; disgusting; detestable; repulsive; hateworthy.
From Middle English wlatsum (“disgusting”), equivalent to wlate + -some. Cognate with Scots wlatsum (“loathsome, disgusting”).
From Wiktionary