plaguy

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English

Adjective

plaguy (comparative plaguier, superlative plaguiest)

  1. Alternative spelling of plaguey.
    • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 119:
      "None so deaf as those who won't hear. Now this plaguy old woman will keep me bawling for an hour; it's always so when I'm in a hurry."
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
      He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps, in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones.
    • 1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 10, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998:
      “If you hadn’t all been in such a plaguey fuss when we were starting, I’d have brought some pillows,” said Mrs. Beaver.
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