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Noun
megrims pl (plural only)
- Chiefly preceded by the: depression, low spirits, unhappiness.
1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. , London: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, ; R Baldwin, ; R. Davis, ; and T Davies, , →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 58:Thou art properly my cephalick ſnuff, and art no bad medicine againſt megrims, vertigoes, and profound thinking—ha, ha, ha.
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:I'm not myself, of course, an idealistic girl in love with a member of the staff of the Thursday Review and never have been, but if I were I know I'd get the megrims somewhat severely if I caught [my fiancé] in a clinch with anyone as personable as this stepdaughter of Aubrey Upjohn, for though shaky on the IQ, physically she was a pipterino of the first water.
- (veterinary medicine) Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses, marked by a disturbance of equilibrium and abnormal gait and behaviour such as staggers or a sudden vertigo, sometimes followed by unconsciousness; the staggers.
Noun
megrims
- plural of megrim
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