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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
She herself was weary, and quivering in all her limbs, hot and yet cold, with an aguish feeling.
From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
The flimsy architecture of the huge hotel, reared to court coolness rather than to resist cold, had suddenly become an abode of aguish discomfort.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
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)
Some were attended with the Dysentery; and the Purging and Gripes were most severe on the Days of the aguish Paroxysms.
From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald
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