Definition of "orful"

I ain't bin werry well lately, and, to crown the hole, I was cort in the Lizzard, I think, as they called it, on that awful Munday nite, and that was pretty nearly a settler for both my old bones and my breth, and might ha' bin quite so, if one of the werry kindest Members of the old Copperashun as I nos on, who had bin a dining with a jolly party on 'em, hadn't kindly directed my notise to about a harf bottle-full of werry fine old Port, with the remarkabel kind words, "That's just about what you wants, Mr. ROBERT, to take you ome safely this most orful nite!"

1891, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 28, 1891‎

"Gorblimey, it's bleedin' orful," said they.

1919, Jack O'Brien, Into the Jaws of Death‎

"That's a bally orful way to get even with a henemy!" exclaimed a stoker, who sat on the edge of the forward hatch.

1922, Harry Kemp, Tramping on Life‎

"It's orful silly of you to stick to that notion!

1892, Various, Golden Days for Boys and Girls‎

"He felt orful bad at not bein' invited, and made some poetry about 'em.

1898, Hezekiah Butterworth, In The Boyhood of Lincoln‎

"You are a orful naughty girl," he pouted reproachfully.

1917, Pauline Lester, Marjorie Dean‎