aguish

[ey-gyoo-ish]

adjective

1. producing, resembling, or resulting from ague.

2. easily affected by or subject to fits of ague.

3. shaking; quivering.

Other Word Forms

• aguishly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of aguish¹

First recorded in 1610–20; ague + -ish ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

As late as 1874, Her Majesty’s Inspector for Schools described the area as “low-lying, aguish, and unhealthy, where no one would live if they could help it.”

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The only house near it was the clerk's, and that not close to it: a poor, low, damp, aguish building, surrounded by grass as long as that in the neighbouring graveyard.

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Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England.

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Miss Jane Wood was sitting with Mrs. North in the aguish belvedere.

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The smell of the aguish flats which fringed that part of Paris rose strong in his nostrils.

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