单词 | all-overishness |
释义 | all-overishnessn. colloquial. Now rare. A feeling of illness or extreme agitation seeming to affect the whole body. Cf. all-overness n. 1, all-over n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > feeling of ill health all-overness1792 all-overishness1820 cheapness1891 1820 M. Wilmot Let. 3 Mar. (1935) 53 Then poor nurse had her share [of influenza]—Mlle hers and Nanny hers—and I had an alloverishness. 1841 J. Mills Old Eng. Gentleman II. xxviii. 227 Isn't it natural for a body to feel a sort of a queer all-overishness on the eve of a wedding? 1864 C. Clarke Box for Season II. 195 That indescribable all-overishness resulting from too much drink. 1907 M. C. Martin Rose of World ii. 25 Did I tell you that I am fit as a fiddle-string—lost that feeling of all-overishness. 2003 S. A. Shields & P. Steinke in C. B. Travis Evol., Gender, & Rape iv. 102 To be sure, evolution manifests itself in many ways in human behavior—the ‘all overishness’ that takes over as we stand at the edge of a cliff, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1820 |
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