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hysteric en · ADJ

From Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”).

Hysterical; relating to hysteria.
- Yes, my dravving-room is an abſolute regiſter-office for candidate actors, and poets vvithout character;—then to be continually alarmed vvith Miſſes and Ma'ams piping hiſteric changes on Juliets and Dorindas, Pollys and Ophelias; […] 1781, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic: Or A Tragedy Rehearsed […], London: […] T[homas] Becket, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, pages 4–5:
- We also find gamblers of this type among some frigid hysteric women, who seem to treat gambling as they treat men, coldly and spongingly. 1969, Edmund Bergler, Selected Papers of Edmund Bergler, 1933-1961, page 697:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
hysterick		alternative, obsolete	lexicographic
most hysteric	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
more hysteric	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic

From Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”).

A hysterical person.
- “Which girl was it now?” he asks a second time. ¶ “Oh, you know, the hysteric,” Eleanor says, “the one who was parading her bazooms in your face.” 1956, Norman Mailer, The Man Who Studied Yoga:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
hysterick		alternative, obsolete	lexicographic
hysterics	Number=Plur		lexicographic