Definitions

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  • noun The state or condition of being crampy.

Etymologies

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crampy +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Other signs of approaching labor may include loose stools, more mucous discharge, or crampiness.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • Sometimes contractions build up gradually, starting with any of the signs mentioned above, with crampiness evolving into stronger contractions that grow closer together over a long period of time, even over a period of days.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • Other signs of approaching labor may include loose stools, more mucous discharge, or crampiness.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • Sometimes contractions build up gradually, starting with any of the signs mentioned above, with crampiness evolving into stronger contractions that grow closer together over a long period of time, even over a period of days.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • I was stretched on Monday, had jalapeños and banana peppers on Tuesday - still nothing but itcky crampiness and I'm just miserable.

    Getting Down To Business 2008

  • Some labors build up gradually, starting with any of the signs mentioned above, with crampiness evolving into stronger contractions that grow closer together over a long period of time, even over a period of days.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • Other signs of approaching labor may include loose stools, mucus discharge, crampiness, more frequent contractions, leaking of fluid, or rupture of membranes.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • He set the piles of sheets before him in order, sheathed his pen and put it in his pocket, and rose from his place, the light of achievement in his eye, but crampiness and fatigue in all his limbs.

    Under the Country Sky Frances [Illustrator] Rogers 1912

  • He had forgotten, too, the crampiness of its temper since that glacial bath, and, most completely of all, had he forgotten the fate of the man-who-didn't - take-care-of-himself.

    The Window-Gazer Isabel Ecclestone Mackay 1901

  • Rapid and odd weight gain (15 pounds in about a week, without any * real* change in eating / activity habits), headaches (nearly constant headaches), fatigue (attributed to insomnia, really), general crampiness, and other kinds of oddness, including mood-related ones, and even digestive symptoms.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

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