all-overish adj.1
1. feeling slightly unwell, usu. as a preliminary to a full-blown attack of some illness.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Sketches and Eccentricities 52: I tell you what, it made me feel quite all-overish. | |
| Putnam’s Mag. VI Dec. 575: I grew – all-overish – no other phrase expresses it. | |
 | Hist. and Antiquities Boston 698: All ovensh. — An uncomfortable feeling — neitlier sick nor well. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | (con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor (1968) III 44: When the mob began to gather round I felt all-overish. | |
| Derby Day 51: All-overish — eh! | |
| Sl. Dict. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Aus. Sl. Dict 4: All Overish, neither in health or sickness. | |
| Virginia Word-Book 33: To feel all-overish. |
2. (Aus.) drunk.
| Currency Lad (Sydney) 12 Jan. 3/3: Biddy Newman was also accused of being extremely all-overish in the streets [...] ‘Me drunk!’ exclaimed Biddy, turning up her eyes with astonishment. |
3. nervous, tense.
| Port Philip Patriot (Vic.) 1 Dec. 4/4: In society he is in purgatory; he plays with his hands and bites his nails, buttons and unbuttons his pockets, looks every three minutes at his watch [...] If he is spoken to he feels, as Jonathan has it, quite all-overish. | |
| Geelong Advertiser (Vic.) 21 Oct. 2/2: ‘[F]or the disgustless kick he gave me astonished me intirely, and made me feel ‘all overish like’. | |
| Herald (Melbourne) 11 Aug. 2/7: [A] queer sort of creeping, all-overish feeling [...] which, though it can be scarcely called fright, is anything but a pleasurable sensation. | |
| Express & Teleg. (Adelaide) 23 Nov. 4/5: [She] hurried away quickly, feeling all-overish and wretched. |
In derivatives
1. nervous tension.
| Sydney Gaz. 6 Oct. 4/2: I do not want for nerve ; but I confess I began to catch a little of the all-overishness of those about me. | |
| Bell's Life in Victoria (Melbourne) 11 May 4/1: [T]he bear was coming nearer and nearer [...] I need scarcely venture to detail the all-overishness I experienced. | |
| Kilmore Free Press (Vic.) 19 Dec. 1/2: The Ministry were suffering from general debility, a sort of all-overishness, which is one of the worst diseases. |
2. a feeling of slight sickness or discomfort.
| Sydney Gaz. 28 Mar. 2/7: [F]eeling at the same time, an all overishness, which at the time, was to me unaccountable. | |
| Old Eng. Gentleman (1847) 293: Isn’t it natural for a body to feel a sort of queer all-overishness on the eve of a wedding, I should like to know? | |
| Mt Alexander Mail (Vic.) 17 Nov. 2/1: Their faces beeame intensely flushed, the skin hot, pulse feverish, and a general feeling of unpleasant all-overishness attacked them. | |
| Society 11 Jan. II I: ‘What’s the trouble?’ asked the doctor. ‘I feel a sort of dislocated all-overishness.’ [F&H]. |