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aguey

aguey adjective: in the state of having a high fever accompanied by shaking or shivering.

Adjective

aguey (comparative more aguey, superlative most aguey)

  1. In the state of having a high fever accompanied by shaking or shivering.
    • One is jaundiced, aguey, feverish or out of sorts in some other way.1871, Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated
  2. Conditions associated with catching ague.
    • 1876: Legislative Humors by the Hon. S. S. Cox in Harper's
      ...where our people inhale liberty in the air they breathe, unmingled with the malaria of States located in that aguey country along the beautiful Ohio.
    • This was the first long, dreary, rainy, aguey, summer and wet, nasty, bitter winter my parents had ever known.1894, Major James B. Pond, A Pioneer's Thanksgiving

Forms of aguey

comparativemore aguey
superlativemost aguey

Origin of aguey

From ague + -y.

Questions about aguey

What does aguey mean?
Aguey means in the state of having a high fever accompanied by shaking or shivering.
What part of speech is aguey?
Aguey is an adjective.

Words near aguey in the dictionary

  1. Agueros
  2. aguerried
  3. agues
  4. agueweed
  5. agueweeds
  6. aguey
  7. Aguiar
  8. Aguiars
  9. Aguid
  10. Aguila
  11. aguila wood

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