fremish

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verb

To shiver or shudder.

OriginMiddle English fremyssh ← Middle French fremir ← Late Latin *fremīre →
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Meanings

verbfremish (third-person singular simple present fremishes, present participle fremishing, simple past and past participle fremished)

present singular third person fremishes · participle present fremishing · participle past fremished · past fremished

  1. intransitiveobsoleterareTo shiver or shudder.

    He fremiſhed and for dread trembled, and great cries out of his mouth proceeded […]

    1859, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, page 6
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    I fremish to conceive what might happen to the style of certain avant-garde bellelettrists if they were made to assist at some frequentations with Shakespeare […]

    1954, New Mexico Quarterly, volume 24, University of New Mexico

Origin

  1. Latinfremere
  2. Late Latin*fremīre
  3. Middle Frenchfremir
  4. Middle Englishfremyssh
  5. Englishfremish

From Middle English fremyssh, *fremysshen, from (the stem of) Middle French fremir, from Late Latin *fremīre, from Latin fremere.

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Chicago

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