all-overish adj.2
1. sexually or romantically excited.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | High Life in N.Y. I 168: There is a terrible all-overish sort of a feeling in a young feller when he’s been cruising among the gals all day, and comes hum and cuddles up in bed. | |
 | Bell's Life in Sydney 23 Oct. 4/2: Poor Ethelwold when he saw the delightful creature is said to have felt quite ‘all-overish’ and to have looked as green as a loin of veal in the dog days, for to tell the truth he was ‘struck all of a heap’ and ‘he don't know-howish’. | |
| Northern Argus (Clare, SA) 12 Apr. 2/7: I began to feel — well, all-overish like; and for fear that I should fall in love with her myself [...] I stopped short. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | My Secret Life (1966) III 507: Oh! he’s made me all-overish. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Aus. Sl. Dict 4: All Overish [...] the condition of men’s feelings when about to propose to a girl. | |
| Forbidden Fruit n.p.: What you told me about her wanting me, my own mother has made me feel so alloverish all day. | |
| Cockney At Home 68: ‘O, Pearce, I feel all over alike,’ Soph says to me, with a sort o’ catch in her throat. ‘O, Soph!’ I says, ‘so do I!’. |
2. (Aus.) pleasing, elating.
| Wodonga & Towong Sentinel (Vic.) 6 Jan. 3/4: Oh, the glamour of it! [i.e. a concert] The — the all-overish kind of feeling that was caused by it! |
In derivatives
1. (Aus.) a feeling of sexual or romantic excitement.
| Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 20 Nov. 2/3: [S]he proceeded to rub noses with him, which [...] caused an awful all-overishness to transfuse his limbs that made his blood race in double quick time [...] the end of all was that he became as potter’s clay, or as wax in the hands of the enchantress. |
2. (Aus.) amiability.
| Sydney Punch 25 Aug. 2/2: [H]e stood transfixed with admiration at the immensity of Eagar's genius, goodness, and perfect all-overishness. |