spleeny

• The man who thinks he is dying may be spleeny, but the man who says he is spleeny is, of the two, the one more likely to be dying See here, old man," I began, "don't you get to thinking that when you hide your own head in the sand no one can see the colour of your feathers. —  The Darrow Enigma
• "I've an idea I'm spleeny," he replied with a ghastly attempt at a smile. —  The Darrow Enigma
• A spleeny Lutheran; and not wholesome to —  Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
• Hopewell was spleeny about it -- ya-as, indeed, he was. —  Janice Day at Poketown
• Ever spleeny, ever froward! —  The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency

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