aguish

American  

[ey-gyoo-ish] / ˈeɪ gyu ɪʃ /

adjective

1. producing, resembling, or resulting from ague.

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

3. shaking; quivering.

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Other Word Forms

• aguishly adverb

Etymology

Origin of aguish

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.”

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2018

In the mean time he was again laid prostrate by another violent attack of aguish fever; and when able to write in June, 1827, he expressed himself as “completely wearied and worn down with vexation.”

From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel

The afternoon wore on, warm and sultry, and the atmosphere in those dank woods felt close, aguish, and unwholesome.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

His face wore that blue, pallid appearance, which you may have seen in aguish patients.

From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

I went back to my blankets after an aguish breakfast, and Greenwood dosed me and told me to go to sleep.

From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Cripps, Arthur Shearly