Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A severe variety of remittent fever prevalent in the East Indies and other tropical regions.

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Examples

  • She was not going to give that up to be a bootylicious, jungle-fever fantasy for a man who was lonely for his wife.

    Substitute Me Lori L. Tharps 2010

  • I thought that was going to be a quickie jungle-fever thing.

    Substitute Me Lori L. Tharps 2010

  • I had spent sixteen years in marching and countermarching over the thirsty plains of the Carnatic, in medical charge of a native regiment -- salivating Sepoys and blowing out with blue pills the officers -- until the effects of a stiff jungle-fever, that nearly made me proprietor of a landed property measuring six feet by two, sent me back to

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 Various

  • Instead of accompanying the Viceroy to Allahabad she had gone to Darjeeling, and on her return, anxious to make sketches of the beautiful jungle scenery, she arranged, alas! contrary to the advice of those with her, to spend one night in the _terai_, [4] where she contracted jungle-fever, to which she succumbed ten days after her return to

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • So a transfer to Jailpore did not mean to Jane Emmett ten extra degrees of heat, the neighborhood of jungle-fever and a brand-new breed of smells.

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • "He died of jungle-fever two months ago," was the answer.

    The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • All that rioted through her fear-mad brain was the fearful fact that this little, helpless child was stricken with the terrible jungle-fever, and that she was helpless to do aught to allay its sufferings -- sufferings that were sure to coming during ensuing intervals of partial consciousness.

    The Beasts of Tarzan 1914

  • All that rioted through her fear-mad brain was the fearful fact that this little, helpless child was stricken with the terrible jungle-fever, and that she was helpless to do aught to allay its sufferings -- sufferings that were sure to coming during ensuing intervals of partial consciousness.

    Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • So a transfer to Jailpore did not mean to Jane Emmett ten extra degrees of heat, the neighborhood of jungle-fever and a brand-new breed of smells.

    Told in the East Talbot Mundy 1909

  • When the trouble was over, and his few acquaintances were pitying him for the bad attack of jungle-fever that had so pulled him down, Moriarty swore a big oath to himself and went abroad again with Mrs. Reiver till the end of the season, adoring her in a quiet and deferential way as an angel from heaven.

    Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

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