megrim
Americannoun
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(often plural) a caprice
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a migraine
noun
Etymology
Origin of megrim
1350–1400; Middle English migrame a type of headache < Middle French migraine (by misreading, in taken as m ); see migraine
Example Sentences
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Now will I have the headach, or the megrim, or some excuse; for I'm resolved I'll not rise to prayers.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir
Among others are these words: chapellin', chanch, coxy, corchey, dawnin', fettle, franzy, gell, megrim, nattering, nesh, overrun, queechy, plash.
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis
I'd have called it a kind of a megrim myself, and, as I say, I certainly perceived a sort of charnel-'ouse smell in the room I'm in.
From In Mr. Knox's Country by Ross, Martin
Why should she learn it is the correct thing to say she is not at home when she is, or that she is suffering from a foolish megrim when she isn't?
From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
I'll be all right to-morrow, and I'll enjoy to-morrow all the more for to-day's megrim.
From The Inventions of the Idiot by Bangs, John Kendrick
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