| 单词 | how-howish |
| 释义 | > as lemmashow-howish Perhaps short for the earlier I-don't-know-howish, how-howish: Having a vague sense of illness or indisposition; ‘all-overish’. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > feeling ill squeamish1670 howish1694 sick as a horse1705 nohowish1816 all-overish1820 washed out1850 all-over1861 wisht1868 crappy1956 1694 J. Dryden Love Triumphant v. i. 71 I am I know not howish. 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. lxiii. 257 We were..off the Hinges, and I don't know howish. 1746 in Leisure Hour (1880) 119 He is a little how-howish to-day, occasioned by a merry-making. 1787 Minor 39 [She] feels, as she says, quite howish and vapourish. 1802 T. Beddoes Hygëia II. viii. 47 Cachectic, or, as some familiar writer terms it, I don't-know-howish. < as lemmas |
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