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Definition of Plaguy

1. Adverb. In a disagreeable manner. "It's so plaguey cold!"

2. Adjective. Causing irritation or annoyance. "It is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"

Definition of Plaguy

1. a. Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting; as, a plaguy horse. [Colloq.] Also used adverbially; as, "He is so plaguy proud."

Definition of Plaguy

1. Adjective. Causing annoyance or bother, irritating ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plaguy

1. troublesome [adj] : PLAGUILY [adv] - See also: troublesome

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plaguy

plague spot plague vaccine plagued plagueful plagueless plaguelike plaguer plaguers plagues plaguesome

plaguey plaguier plaguiest plaguily plaguing plaguy (current term) plaice plaices plaided plaiding

plaidings plaidman plaidmen plaidoyer plaidoyers plaids plaigiarism plain plain-clothes

Literary usage of Plaguy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travels in America by Asa Greene (1833)
"Strange there can't be any thing nice, but some plaguy feller or other will try to counterfeit it. But there'll be other guess times in four years from now. ..."

2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"The dragon he had a plaguy hide, Which could both sword and spear abide. 1601. ... He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of tt cry ' No recovery. ..."

3. Citation and examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby by Walter Savage Landor (1834)
"I might, indeed, write unto him : but our Warwickshire pens are mighty broad- nibbed ; and there is a something in this plaguy ink of ours sadly ropy ..."

4. Travels in America by Asa Greene (1833)
"Strange there can't be any thing nice, but some plaguy feller or other will try to counterfeit it. But there'll be other guess times in four years from now. ..."

5. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"The dragon he had a plaguy hide, Which could both sword and spear abide. 1601. ... He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of tt cry ' No recovery. ..."

6. Citation and examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby by Walter Savage Landor (1834)
"I might, indeed, write unto him : but our Warwickshire pens are mighty broad- nibbed ; and there is a something in this plaguy ink of ours sadly ropy ..."

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