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aguey en · ADJ

Etymology

From ague + -y.

Meanings

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.
   • 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:
   • 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.

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