catch-coldy

comparative more catch-coldy · superlative most catch-coldy

1. colloquialdatedProne to catching colds or particularly susceptible to illness during cold weather.

   Have you taken plenty of camphor pillules? Because Russia in this transition month is very catch-coldy. I hope you've remembered goloshes ?

   1919, Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927, “VIII Paul's Love Story”, in The Gay-Dombeys; a novel, page 106

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   "I am different. I am not a catch-coldy person, and I have a thicker mop of hair," said Lady Matilda frankly. "Besides which, I don't know that you ever saw me sitting out of doors in a sharp frost with a bare head."

   1884, William Blackwood & Sons, “The Baby's Grandmother.— Part V”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, page 339

   Cricket on the whole has been interesting to watch, and the grounds are hard and fast, but the northerly direction of the wind has made it catch-coldy work in the pavilion. We are still expecting summer.

   1898, Unattributed, “The late Mr. I. D. Walker.”, in Country Life, page 44

   Yes, though I had known him since I was a child, and he was grey then, I supposed him not more than seventy at the very most, delicate and catch-coldy because of his foreign birth.

   1926, violet hunt, i have this to say: the story of my flurried years, page 274