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单词 all-overishness
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all-overishnessn.

Brit. /ˌɔːlˈəʊv(ə)rᵻʃnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌɔlˈoʊv(ə)rɪʃnᵻs/, /ˌɑlˈoʊv(ə)rɪʃnᵻs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: all-overish adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < all-overish adj. (although this is first attested very slightly later) + -ness suffix. Compare earlier all-overness n.
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.
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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).
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