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feversome en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English fever Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English feversome From fever + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by fever.
   • It is quite a fitful fever-some sleep that little beetle is experiencing. 2015, T. Weber, Our Dance Across the Plains:
   • I picked up the figure, and was further surprised to find it very cold, as cold as a scoop of ice from the coolth-vendors you may have seen along the street here, offering their wares to chill a drink or a feversome brow. 2013, Melissa Marr, Tim Pratt, Rags & Bones:

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