Meaning of all-overish | Babel Free

Definitions

Vaguely uncomfortable; having a general feeling of illness or malaise.

colloquial, dated

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Examples

“[H]e was uncommonly old and uncommonly ugly, and he had a pair of the most extraordinary eyes I ever saw, — they gave me a sort of all-overish feeling when I saw them glaring at me through the pigeon hole.”

“The drink was beginning to tell on them; she felt quite unsteady and all-overish.”

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