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
U.S. moviemakers, struck by the popularity of TV programs about physicians and by the international success of some British medicomedies, all too often call in a pill pusher to remedy the money megrims.
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
The nimble sylphs bring from the "Cave of Spleen" a stock of shrieks, and tears, and megrims.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.
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