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

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

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

There was an aguish pain in his spine that blinded him: since yesterday he had eaten nothing,—he had no money to buy a meal; he was a felon,—who would give him work?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various

Other physicians testify to the fact, that near the Thames marshes, the prevalent diseases are all of them of an aguish type, intermittent and remittent, and that they are accompanied with much dysentery.

From Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health by Waring, George E. (George Edwin)

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

From Dorothy and other Italian Stories by Woolson, Constance Fenimore