all-overish

comparative more all-overish · superlative most all-overish

1. colloquialdatedVaguely uncomfortable; having a general feeling of illness or malaise.

   The drink was beginning to tell on them; she felt quite unsteady and all-overish.

   1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 694

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   [H]e was uncommonly old and uncommonly ugly, and he had a pair of the most extraordinary eyes I ever saw, — they gave me a sort of all-overish feeling when I saw them glaring at me through the pigeon hole.

   1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle