Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Affected with fever; feverish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Feverish.

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  • adjective obsolete feverish

Etymologies

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fever +‎ -y

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Examples

  • It comes from a completely different part of my brain than the fevery stuff that sometimes stutters onto the page during my weekend writing.

    May 2008 2008

  • It comes from a completely different part of my brain than the fevery stuff that sometimes stutters onto the page during my weekend writing.

    Guest blogger - Megan Abbott 2008

  • He had been going around with a snuffling, hay-fevery, thick head sort of thing a few days before, so she showed us on the X-ray how his sinuses were playing up with the nerves and roots of his teeth.

    Archive 2008-10-01 appleleaf 2008

  • Iz OK – hubbehcat cuts de grass, so I not get all hay-fevery.

    dude, dat spider wuz huge - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • O hai cweenmj! as pur yur instrukshiones*, ai hav gon tu teh pet store an bawt a nu litterbawks, 3 nom-bowls, a flloofy mause x 2, a floofy cube ? x2 an a floofy, fevery fing on a string an stik! mai Tammy finks itz hur burfday! hopez dis meetz wif yur approoval!

    Sory, mai - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • He had been going around with a snuffling, hay-fevery, thick head sort of thing a few days before, so she showed us on the X-ray how his sinuses were playing up with the nerves and roots of his teeth.

    Sparring with Windmills appleleaf 2008

  • Well, still to come, do you have that achy, fevery, "I don't feel good" feeling?

    CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2005 2005

  • Some has bad breths, none aint 2 swete, some is fevery, some is scrofilus, some has bad teeth,

    The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

  • "I don't seem to have anything fevery about me," said Mrs. Jake, with an air of patient self-denial; and though both her companions were most compassionate at the thought of her real sufferings, they could not resist the least bit of a smile.

    A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

  • Breath's hot, sir, but it don't smell nasty and fevery.

    In the Mahdi's Grasp George Manville Fenn 1870

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