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English
Etymology
As in paroxysms or fits
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Adverb
like fits (comparative more like fits, superlative most like fits)
- (obsolete, weather) in squalls, strongly, in paroxysms
(Can we date this quote?), Henry Adams, Letters Of Henry Adams 1858 1891:That night we arrived at a little place called Georgenthal where we got a jolly supper and slept in two most romantically large, rickety, cold and ghostly chambers, with the wind outside blowing like fits and creaking the dismal old sign in the most pleasing manner.
1907, “Robertsbridge - a Mediaeval Village”, in Diary of Ethel Mercy Burchett – a Robertsbridge Girl, retrieved 26 July 2024:[…] the weather has changed instead of freezing now it is blowing gales and raining like fits.