fainty
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of fainty
Example Sentences
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I have been the recipient of so many kind and courteous favors from my senior colleagues, until it makes me feel fainty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gimme somethin' t'ate, mother; I be hungry an' fainty like wi' gwaine tu far.
From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts
"Now, don't get fainty, Peggy, or Miss Margaret Prescott," admonished Jess; "as Jimsy says, 'brace up,' the best is yet to come."
From The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly by Margaret Burnham
No wonder the lady felt fainty like; fear for a sweetheart, yer see.
From Punch Among the Planets by Various
It continued from one in the morning till half-past five, and left me pale and fainty.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by A. Turnbull
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