megrims
Britishnoun
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archaic a fit of depression
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archaic a disease of horses and cattle; staggers
Vocabulary lists containing megrims
Example Sentences
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Now, no overtime, or I’ll have a big ol’ case of the megrims.
From Washington Post ● May 5, 2012
At the Illinois Pavilion, Audio-ani-matronic Abe Lincoln, who had been suffering from electronic megrims until engineers fiddled with the circuitry that makes his eyes blink, his voice rasp and his hands gesture, began to work.
From Time Magazine Archive
They fall into megrims, fancies, freaks; they have the blues, the dumps; they become hipped on their misery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Pinter's underlying concern seems to hover offstage, a case of the middle-age megrims which, at the age of 46, Pinter may well feel or have felt when he was writing No Man's Land.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thee must not get the megrims, Peggy, before thee has started.
From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison
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