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aguey

adj

Etymology

From ague + -y.

  1. derived from acūtus
  2. inherited from agu
  3. suffixed as aguey — “ague + y”

Definitions

  1. In the state of having a high fever accompanied by shaking or shivering.

    • One is jaundiced, aguey, feverish or out of sorts in some other way.

  2. Conditions associated with catching ague.

    • 1876: Legislative Humors by the Hon. S. S. Cox in Harper's ...where our people inhale liberty in the air they breathe, unmingled with the malaria of States located in that aguey country along the beautiful Ohio.
    • This was the first long, dreary, rainy, aguey, summer and wet, nasty, bitter winter my parents had ever known.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA