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all-overs

all-overs noun: an all-overish feeling; general malaise. Also the plural of all-over.

Noun

all-overs pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An all-overish feeling; general malaise.
    • “We are short to-night!” cries the woman, with a propitiatory laugh. “Short and snappish we are! But we’re out of sorts for want of a smoke. We’ve got the all-overs, haven’t us, deary? But this is the place to cure ’em in; this is the place where the all-overs is smoked off.”1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC

Also used as

all-overs is also the plural of all-over.

Questions about all-overs

What does all-overs mean?
All-overs means an all-overish feeling; general malaise.
What part of speech is all-overs?
All-overs is a noun.

Words near all-overs in the dictionary

  1. all-over painting
  2. all-over paintings
  3. all-overish
  4. all-overishness
  5. all-overness
  6. all-overs
  7. all-party
  8. all-perfect
  9. all-pervading
  10. all-play-all
  11. all-points

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