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fluish en · ADJ

Etymology

From flu + -ish.

Meanings

  1. Characteristic of influenza; flulike.
    • The day after I'd finished the screenplay, I felt fluish and heavy in the legs. The fluishness and heavy-leggedness increased. 1988, D. M. Thomas, Memories and Hallucinations, page 183:
    • The sense of déja vu is caught up in my vague, fluish dreams. 2006, Sterling R. Braswell, American Meth:
    • Then some fluish malaise crept through him. 2008, Shirley Abbott, The Future of Love, page 89:

Forms

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most fluish Degree=Sup lexicographic
more fluish Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

fluishness