feversome

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adjective

Characterised or marked by fever.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivefeversome (comparative more feversome, superlative most feversome)

comparative more feversome · superlative most feversome · alternative fever-some

  1. Characterised or marked by fever.

    It is quite a fitful fever-some sleep that little beetle is experiencing.

    2015, T. Weber, Our Dance Across the Plains
    1 more example

    I picked up the figure, and was further surprised to find it very cold, as cold as a scoop of ice from the coolth-vendors you may have seen along the street here, offering their wares to chill a drink or a feversome brow.

    2013, Melissa Marr, Tim Pratt, Rags & Bones

Origin

  1. Englishfever
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*somHós
  4. Proto-Germanic*samaz
  5. Englishfeversome

From fever + -some.

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Chicago

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