all-overish

English

Etymology

From all over +‎ -ish.

Adjective

all-overish (comparative more all-overish, superlative most all-overish)

1. (colloquial, dated) Vaguely uncomfortable; having a general feeling of illness or malaise.
   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     [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.

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 694:

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

Derived terms

• all-overishness

Related terms

• all-overs