all-overish

adj

all-overish

adj

Etymology From all over + -ish.

1

Colloquial, Dated Vaguely uncomfortable; having a general feeling of illness or malaise.

  • [H]e was uncommonly old and uncommonly ugly, and he had a pair of the most extraordinary eyes I ever saw, — they gave me a sort of all-overish feeling when I saw them glaring at me through the pigeon hole.1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
  • The drink was beginning to tell on them; she felt quite unsteady and all-overish.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 694:
Derived terms
all-overishness
Related terms
all-overs

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.