Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Vexatious; bothersome.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Plaguestricken; infected with the plague; marked by the plague or other foul disease.
- Troublesome; vexatious; annoying.
- Vexatiously; deucedly: as, plaguy hard; a plaguy long time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting. [Colloq.] Also used adverbially.”
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- adjective Causing
annoyance orbother , irritating
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a disagreeable manner
- adjective causing irritation or annoyance
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Examples
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I am not deprest, I am not ill, but this plaguy suspence worries me sadly sometimes.
Letter 299 2009
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I have found some others nearly equal to her, but they are like white-Black Birds, plaguy rare. —
Letter 209 2009
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This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression.
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This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression.
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On the other hand, there might be a word or two to say about the rigging; if this was not all it should have been, the fault lay entirely with the plaguy considerations of our budget.
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Moreover, how am I to know that this plaguy fellow is actually related to me? —
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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And sometimes they be so plaguy sulky, they tempt me to give 'em a knock a little matter too hard, and then they'll fall you into a fit, like, and go off in a twinkle. '
Camilla 2008
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A pedant angler, I call him, a plaguy angler, so let him huff away, and turn we to thee and to thy sweet charm in fishing for men.
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She gave me a saucy answer, as I was disposed to think it, because I had just then a twinge, that I could scarce bear; for pain is a plaguy thing to a man of my lively spirits.
Pamela 2006
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England, and follow your example, I think — turn hermit, or some plaguy thing or other, and see what a constant course of penitence and mortification will do for me.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
yarb commented on the word plaguy
"There was young Nat Swaine, once the bravest boat-header out of all Nantucket and the Vineyard; he joined the meeting, and never came to good. He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones."
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 18
June 3, 2009
bilby commented on the word plaguy
There once was a young Nat Swaine
A brave sailor as Melville makes plain
But fearful of being plaguy
He came over all vague: he
Never went a-whaling again.
June 4, 2009
madmouth commented on the word plaguy
I'm loving came over all vague
June 4, 2009