nohowish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

nohow +‎ -ish

Adjective[edit]

nohowish (comparative more nohowish, superlative most nohowish)

  1. (colloquial) Feeling out of sorts.
    • 1936, John Middleton Murry, The autobiography of John Middleton Murry: between two worlds:
      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.
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