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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Sophia invisible with her vapours; Madeleine with the megrim; and you in and out of the house as excited and secret as the cat when she has licked all the cream.
From The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle
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 George Willis Cooke
It is possible that some one may say "Connu!" both to the stories themselves and to the moral of real suffering, as opposed to mere megrim, which is so obviously deducible from them.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
"Mother has a megrim," she said; "she is in her chamber."
From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
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 Martin Ross
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