mauger
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of mauger
from Du. mager thin, meagre
Example Sentences
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The next day it wuz so hot I felt kinder mauger and stayed to home.
From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley
Jenette looked kinder mauger, and Trueman's wife looked haughtily at her, from over the top of the him book.
From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 4 by Marietta Holley
Wall, the next mornin' I got up feelin' kinder mauger.
From Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley
Nature says, He is my creature, and mauger all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me.
From Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
He loved and followed, that his health gin out after a time—he felt weak and mauger.
From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 5 by Marietta Holley
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