staggers en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) Any of various diseases of animals that affect the nervous system, characterized by a lack of control of the limbs
“Soon afther, some mischances begun to happen to the farmer's cattle; a horse tuk the staggers, a fine vale calf died o' the black-lig, an' some uv his sheep o' the rid wather[.]”
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 525:
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(form-of, plural) plural of stagger
form of stagger
- (uncountable) Any of various diseases of animals that affect the nervous system, characterized by a lack of control of the limbs ▸ staggers and jags, delirium tremens or extreme inebriation
Deriveds
sleepy staggers · zamia staggers · stomach staggers · mad staggers · grass staggers