Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Affecting the whole system; extending all over one: as, an all-overish feeling of sickness.
Wiktionary
- adj. colloquial, dated Vaguely uncomfortable; having a general feeling of illness.
Etymologies
- From all over + -ish. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If you say that these things are mere hallucinations, vague air-beating or tale-telling, why, good philosopher, do you feel so curious, so all-overish, as it were?”
“But, as he saw her now, with her black hair and dark glowing face, walking along the pavement in her decided way, he felt, as he afterwards said, "quite all-overish like.”
“I don't know that I can, except in a general way, -- he was uncommonly old and uncommonly ugly, and he had a pair of the most extraordinary eyes I ever saw, -- they gave me a sort of all-overish feeling when I saw them glaring at me through the pigeon hole.”
“I think I'm in for an attack of flue, or something; feel shivery and all-overish.”
“Saving your presence, gentlemen, it made me feel all-overish like.”
“He had clear, steady, humorous eyes; a manner frank and independent, not to be put upon; and yet Ethel divined, though she could not have declared, the "want" in his appearance -- that all-overish grace and elasticity which comes only from the development of the brain and nervous system.”
“Then, when he has gone I think of other things, and I feel he would not understand a word about them, and because he isn't there I don't feel the delicious all-overish sensation, so I rather decide to marry Rochester -- there would be such risk -- because when you are married to a man, it is possible to get much fonder of him.”
“When Jim looks at me with his attractive blue eyes, and I see the D.S.O. and the M.C., and his white nice teeth -- and how his hair is brushed, and how well his uniform fits, I have a jolly all-overish sensation -- and I don't much listen to what he is saying -- he says lots of love -- and I think I would really like him all the time.”
“Wouverman's wharf, that he lost his all-overish feelings in a queer mixture of pride and sorrowfulness.”
“I wondered what made me come so all-overish like and fancy there was something about as oughtn't to be.”
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