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(adjective) - (1) Having declined in health.
--Michael Traynor's English Dialect of Donegal, 1953
(2) Sickly, pining away; usually applied to a so-called "changeling." Ireland.
--Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1896-1905
January 14, 2018