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MEGRIMS
blues, blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours
(noun) a state of depression; “he had a bad case of the blues”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
megrims
plural of megrim
Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses, marked by a disturbance of equilibrium and abnormal gait and behaviour such as staggers or a sudden vertigo, sometimes followed by unconsciousness; the staggers. [from 17th c.]
(usually, with "the") Depression, low spirits, unhappiness. [from 16th c.]
Anagrams
• gimmers, mergism
Source: Wiktionary
MEGRIM
Me"grim, n. Etym: [OE. migrim, migrene, F. migraine, LL. hemigrania, L. hemicrania, hemicranium, Gr. Hemi- and Cranium, and cf. Hemicrania, Migraine.]
1. A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.
2. A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits. These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies. Ford.
3. pl. (Far.)
Definition: A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy. Youatt.
Me"grim, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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NAUSEATING
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
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