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like fits

like fits adverb: in squalls, strongly, in paroxysms.

Adverb

like fits (comparative more like fits, superlative most like fits)

  1. (obsolete) in squalls, strongly, in paroxysms
    • 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.(Can we date this quote?), Henry Adams, Letters Of Henry Adams 1858 1891
    • It was blowing like fits; if anything had carried away I should have been on shore in a jiffy..1903, Erskine Childers, chapter VIII, in The Riddle of the Sands, Nelson Library edition, London: T Nelson & Sons, page 98

Forms of like fits

comparativemore like fits
superlativemost like fits

Origin of like fits

As in paroxysms or fits

Questions about like fits

What does like fits mean?
Like fits means in squalls, strongly, in paroxysms.
What part of speech is like fits?
Like fits is an adverb.

Words near like fits in the dictionary

  1. like father like son
  2. like father, like son
  3. like feeding time at the zoo
  4. like ferrets in a bag
  5. like fingernails on a chalkboard
  6. like fits
  7. like flies on a rib roast
  8. like flies on pie
  9. like fuck
  10. like fudge
  11. like fun

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