Nohowish

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Feeling out of sorts. colloquial

    "Perhaps I worked too hard, or the Oxford climate after the Cotswold air got me down. Within a fortnight I was feeling nohowish, as Keats called it."

Example

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"Perhaps I worked too hard, or the Oxford climate after the Cotswold air got me down. Within a fortnight I was feeling nohowish, as Keats called it."

Etymology

From nohow + -ish.

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out of sorts

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