plaguy
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]plaguy (comparative plaguier, superlative plaguiest)
- Alternative spelling of plaguey.
- 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 119:
- "None so deaf as those who won't hear. Now this plaguy old woman will keep me bawling for an hour; it's always so when I'm in a hurry."
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- 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.