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English
Noun
head-ache (plural head-aches)
- Archaic form of headache.
1800, The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners, volume X, page 148:I saw the lions the next morning, acquired a considerable dizziness and head-ache, in my way to the top of King’s Chapel, and got baked in the hot house of the botanical garden, with the dregs of yesterday’s wine still in my head:—[…]
1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: , volume II, London: T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 179–180:[…] if the good people who used to kneel and gape in that gallery could have foreseen that the time would ever come when men and women might lie another ten minutes in bed, when they woke with a head-ache, without danger of reprobation, because chapel was missed, they would have jumped with joy and envy.
1847, George William Featherstonhaugh, A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor, page 265:I also asked the great favour of him, as he would sit next to me in the canoe, to smoke as little as possible, as it always made me sick, and gave me a head-ache, to which he replied that he only smoked the kinnekinnic, which is a mild preparation […]