feversome

adj

feversome

adj

Etymology From fever + -some.

1

Characterised or marked by fever

  • I picked up the figure, and was further surprised to find it very cold, as cold as a scoop of ice from the coolth-vendors you may have seen along the street here, offering their wares to chill a drink or a feversome brow.2013, Melissa Marr, Tim Pratt, Rags & Bones:
  • It is quite a fitful fever-some sleep that little beetle is experiencing.2015, T. Weber, Our Dance Across the Plains:

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