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aguish

[ ey-gyoo-ish ]

adjective

  1. producing, resembling, or resulting from ague.
  2. easily affected by or subject to fits of ague.


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Other Words From

  • agu·ish·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of aguish1

First recorded in 1610–20; ague + -ish 1( def )
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Example Sentences

As late as 1874, Her Majesty’s Inspector for Schools described the area as “low-lying, aguish, and unhealthy, where no one would live if they could help it.”

The only house near it was the clerk's, and that not close to it: a poor, low, damp, aguish building, surrounded by grass as long as that in the neighbouring graveyard.

Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England.

Miss Jane Wood was sitting with Mrs. North in the aguish belvedere.

The smell of the aguish flats which fringed that part of Paris rose strong in his nostrils.

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