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Etymology
Origin of aguish
First recorded in 1610–20; ague + -ish 1 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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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
A general chill pervades the domestic virtues: hospitality is aguish, and charity becomes more than proverbially numb.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 by Various
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
The smell of the aguish flats which fringed that part of Paris rose strong in his nostrils.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.
Persons are deterred from settling in the neighborhood by the aguish character of the country.
From Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health by Waring, George E. (George Edwin)
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