Meanings
adjectivenumby (comparative more numby, superlative most numby)
comparative more numby · superlative most numby
- obsoleteSomewhat numb; numbed.
The pains extend down the legs, with a numby, burning feeling.
1868, The London Lancet1 more example
My hands are so stiffe and nummie, that I can hardly write for my selfe, so that what I have once scribled, I had rather frame it anew than take the paines to correct it; and I reade but little better.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
Origin
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with numby
dummymummytummyyummyrummygummycrummyscummyBrummieplummybummycrumbycummiedrummyIndian rummyscrummyslummystommystrummystummythrummy
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APA
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