Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A state of worriment or anxiety.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor.
Examples
“We are not going to have the peace of our happy valley spoiled because somebody gets in a fantigue.”
“And he so continted," said Mrs. Quin, "until he took his fantigue.”
“But you've been asking cook to do something, and a nice fantigue she'll be in.”
“To Nic's great delight, just when his father was at his worst, and, as his old body-servant said, "working himself into a fantigue about a bit”
“Old Roby is not to have the monopoly of getting into a fantigue. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fantigue’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fabaceous, fabiform, fabulist, faburden, face-cord, facetiae, facia, facinorous, factious, factitious, factitive, factive and 418 more...
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theyearofglad's list
Awesome words.
palimpsest, portmanteau, prolix, sycophant, eschew, revenant, haecceity, velleity, equipoise, caesura, soteriology, inchoate and 23 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
Tweets
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bilby I wonder if this word howls. May 27, 2009
ambyellen anxiety or irritation May 27, 2009