headaching

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adjective

Having a tendency to cause a headache.

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Meanings

adjectiveheadaching (comparative more headaching, superlative most headaching)

comparative more headaching · superlative most headaching

  1. Having a tendency to cause a headache.

    There was a loud shuffle as the courtroom began to empty and the chatter of people discussing their various opinions was headaching.

    2010, Tom Reilly, The Price (page 349)
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    ...and certainly early rising increases the pang of separation,—the raw, damp air, the headaching feel of lingering drowsiness, the cold coffee, the hurry of sleepy servants;...

    1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 327

Origin

From headache + -ing.

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Chicago

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