Acheyness

He took one out, lighted it, then went over and opened the piano. / “Play to me while I smoke,” he said coaxingly. “You know how I like it.” / I sat down and played till all the anger and badness and acheyness had run out the ends of my fingers.

And indeed, many vaccinated people do experience a “reaction,” with slight fever, lassitude, and acheyness—the symptoms of a very low-grade viral infection.

I have a body to monitor and at the first sign of waywardness or lumpiness or acheyness I am to report it.