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Rheumy

adjective
1.
Moist, damp, wet (especially of air).
2.
Of or pertaining to arthritis.  Synonyms: arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid.  "Rheumy with age and grief"






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"Rheumy" Quotes from Famous Books



... way sometimes," said Mr Philp, wiping a rheumy eye. "An' the longer they puts it off the more you can't never tell which way it will take 'em. O' course, if Cap'n Hunken didn't tell you he'd been visitin' Rilla lately, he must have had his reasons, an' I'm sorry ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... plaintiff himself went into the witness-box—and Mahony's feelings became involved as well. This his adversary!—this poor old mangy greybeard, who stood blinking a pair of rheumy eyes and weakly smiling. One did not pit oneself against such human flotsam. Drunkard was stamped on every inch of the man, but this morning, in odd exception to the well-primed crew around him, he was ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson



Words linked to "Rheumy" :   unhealthy, arthritic, creaky, wet, rheumatic, rheum, rheumatoid



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