plaguy

But I've a shrewd guess that plaguy wife and child of thine are at the bottom of thy half-and-half joining.

He then scoffingly exclaimed, 'Why a be plaguy shy o'the sudden, Mistress Debby!'

A plaguy mean trick this of women's—defying just when they are safe!

But she had never suspected that she was a plaguy old cat, and did not feel like her idea of one.