Word.ws English Dictionary

megrims

megrims noun: chiefly preceded by the: depression, low spirits, unhappiness. Also the plural of megrim.

Noun

megrims pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Chiefly preceded by the: depression, low spirits, unhappiness.
    • Thou art properly my cephalick ſnuff, and art no bad medicine againſt megrims, vertigoes, and profound thinking—ha, ha, ha.1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. […], London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […]; R[oberts] Baldwin, […]; R. Davis, […]; and T[homas] Davies, […], →OCLC, Act...
    • 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...1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
  2. (plural, plural-only) 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.

Also used as

megrims is also the plural of megrim.

Questions about megrims

What does megrims mean?
Megrims means chiefly preceded by the: depression, low spirits, unhappiness.
What part of speech is megrims?
Megrims is a noun.

Words near megrims in the dictionary

  1. Megrelians
  2. Megrels
  3. Megrez
  4. megrim
  5. megrimish
  6. megrims
  7. megrivirus
  8. megriviruses
  9. megs
  10. megstie
  11. Megumi

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: megrims (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “megrims.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/megrims. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.