Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Vexatious; bothersome.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Plaguestricken; infected with the plague; marked by the plague or other foul disease.
- Troublesome; vexatious; annoying.
- Vexatiously; deucedly: as, plaguy hard; a plaguy long time.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting. [Colloq.] Also used adverbially.”
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a disagreeable manner
- adj. causing irritation or annoyance
Examples
“I have found some others nearly equal to her, but they are like white-Black Birds, plaguy rare. —”
“I am not deprest, I am not ill, but this plaguy suspence worries me sadly sometimes.”
“This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression.”
“On the other hand, there might be a word or two to say about the rigging; if this was not all it should have been, the fault lay entirely with the plaguy considerations of our budget.”
“Moreover, how am I to know that this plaguy fellow is actually related to me? —”
“And sometimes they be so plaguy sulky, they tempt me to give 'em a knock a little matter too hard, and then they'll fall you into a fit, like, and go off in a twinkle. ”
“A pedant angler, I call him, a plaguy angler, so let him huff away, and turn we to thee and to thy sweet charm in fishing for men.”
“She gave me a saucy answer, as I was disposed to think it, because I had just then a twinge, that I could scarce bear; for pain is a plaguy thing to a man of my lively spirits.”
“England, and follow your example, I think — turn hermit, or some plaguy thing or other, and see what a constant course of penitence and mortification will do for me.”
“Joseph is plaguy squeamish again; but I know he only intends by his qualms to swell his merits with me.”
Lists
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Mobying Along
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hypos, Manhattoes, circumambulate, mole, grapnels, bowsprit, asphaltic, mazy, tranced, cataract, ungraspable, judgmatically and 227 more...
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Moby Dick
Words of interest from the book Moby Dick.
arrant, obstreperously, coffer-dam, farrago, rejoinder, counterpane, hamper, commend, grego, dreadnought, psalmody, expostulation and 85 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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Moby-Dick
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hypo, spile, hunks, grapnel, squitchy, skrimshander, monkey jacket, direful, grego, wrapall, dreadnaught, bosky and 158 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
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Tweets
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madmouth I'm loving came over all vague Jun 4, 2009
bilby There once was a young Nat Swaine
A brave sailor as Melville makes plain
But fearful of being plaguy
He came over all vague: he
Never went a-whaling again.
Jun 4, 2009
yarb "There was young Nat Swaine, once the bravest boat-header out of all Nantucket and the Vineyard; he joined the meeting, and never came to good. He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones."
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 18 Jun 3, 2009