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
The pulse is rapid, small and irregular, palpitation and fainty sensations come on suddenly during the course of diseases mentioned.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
Did the Friar get fainty about Barbie bein' a heretic?" sez I. "
From Happy Hawkins by Wason, Robert Alexander
"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 Burnham, Margaret
I feel fainty now whenever I think of furlough.
From "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Watkins, Sam R.
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