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English
Etymology
From all over + -ish.
Adjective
all-overish (comparative more all-overish, superlative most all-overish)
- (colloquial, dated) Vaguely uncomfortable; having a general feeling of illness or malaise.
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:[H]e was uncommonly old and uncommonly ugly, and he had a pair of the most extraordinary eyes I ever saw, — they gave me a sort of all-overish feeling when I saw them glaring at me through the pigeon hole.
1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 694:The drink was beginning to tell on them; she felt quite unsteady and all-overish.
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