megrimn.¹

Brit.

/ˈmiːɡrᵻm/, U.S.

/ˈmiɡrᵻm/

Forms: late Middle English midgrame, late Middle English midgrym, late Middle English mygrame, late Middle English mygrem, late Middle English mygreme, late Middle English mygreyme, late Middle English–1500s migrym, late Middle English–1500s myegrym, late Middle English–1500s mygrym, late Middle English–1600s migram, 1500s maigrim, 1500s megrym, 1500s megryme, 1500s meigryme, 1500s migrymme, 1500s mygrim, 1500s–1600s megrime, 1500s–1600s megrum, 1500s–1600s meigrim, 1500s– megrim, 1600s meagrom, 1600s megram, 1600s megreme, 1600s megrimme, 1600s megrome, 1600s megroome, 1600s migraim, 1600s migrame, 1600s migreame, 1600s migrim, 1600s mygram, 1600s–1800s meagrim, 1700s meag run (in sense 4), 1900s meegrum (rare); English regional 1800s magram, 1800s maugram (northern), 1800s mawgram (northern), 1800s– maigrim, 1800s– maygrim, 1800s– meagram, 1800s– meagrim, 1800s– meeagrum, 1800s– meegrim, 1800s– megrim, 1800s– megrum, 1800s– mogram (northern), 1800s– mogrum (northern); U.S. regional 1800s– maggrum (New England), 1900s– megrim (Midland), 1900s– megrum (Midland); Scottish pre-1700 magrame, pre-1700 magryme, pre-1700 maigram, pre-1700 megrum, pre-1700 migram, pre-1700 migramme, pre-1700 mygrame, pre-1700 mygrim, 1800s maigrum, 1800s megram, 1800s– meagrim, 1900s– megrim; Irish English 1900s– megrum, 1900s– meigrim.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French migraine.

Etymology: < Middle French migraine (see migraine n.), with second syllable remodelled after grame adj., greme n., and grim adj.In form meag run in sense 4 remodelled after run n.²

a. Headache; spec. migraine. Also: a headache or attack of migraine. Now rare (U.S. regional and poetic).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in head > migraine

demigranec1400

megrim1440

emigrane1483

hemicrane?1550

hemicrania1657

migraine1777

sick headache1784

brow-ague1855

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 337 Mygreyme, sekenesse [v.rr. migrym, midgrame, mygrene], emigranea.

c1450 Agnus Castus (Bodl. 483) (1950) 191 (MED) Also yff a man haue þe mygreme or hed-ache, poyn thys herbe and temper hit with aysell.

?c1450 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. ix. 230 Warke in þe swldyrs & migram in þe heue[de].

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) iv. v. 87 The mygrame and other euyll passyons of the heed.

?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 615 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 77 All maner red eyn, bleryd eyn, and þe myegrym also.

?1567 Merie Tales Master Skelton sig. Avi^v Other whyle he woulde saye hee had the megrym in hys head.

1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 42 It is not a softe shooe that healeth the Gowte..nor a crown of Pearle that cureth the Meigrim.

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xvii. iv. 640 The Megrim is properly a disease affecting the one side of the head, right, or left.

1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions vii. 328 By how much it is more honourable, to dye upon a Sword's point..then for a man to Snivel and Sneeze himself into another World; or to go away in a Meagrim.

1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 229 For the Megrim, they smoak..the dried Bark of a Pomegranate Tree.

1797 L. Hopkins Guillotina in Connecticut Courant 9 Jan. 1/1 The hiccups, megrim, gout, and phthisic, All bless'd the Lightning-rods of Physic.

1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. iii. x. 1005 Brow-ague, or megrims, as it is sometimes called.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 543 Attacks of megrim are often accompanied by..contraction of the temporal artery.

1933 Amer. Speech 8 i. 51 Megrum, a severe one-sided headache, migraine.

1953 V. Randolph & G. P. Wilson Down in Holler 152 An illiterate farmer in Kansas or Illinois would not be likely to say megrim when he meant headache, but this word is quite common in the Ozarks.

1972 W. H. Auden in New Yorker 24 June 32/1 You've repelled all germ invasions, but never chastised my tantrums with a megrim.

b. figurative. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete.

ΚΠ

?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew v. f. lvij^v The weke and feble eyes of the world, deseased with the mygrim and accustomed to darcknesse.

1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 228 Send me something to rid me of the Megreme I have taken in reading the sotteries of these times.

?c1660 R. Wild Poems (1670) 27 The meagrim of opinions, new or old, The colic in the conscience, he could cure.

1663 G. Mackenzie Religio Stoici 39 Finding that fortunes megrim could not be cured.

1778 H. Brooke Impostor v. iv, in Coll. Pieces III. 81 These are the very megrims of existence; The dizzy rounds of thought, that foundering drown In their own whirlpools.

†c. Dizziness or vertigo, esp. accompanying a migraine. Also: an attack of such symptoms. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [noun]

dizzinessc900

swimeOE

swinglingc1000

turningc1230

turngiddya1382

giddiness1398

turngiddiness1398

vertiginyc1400

turn-sick?c1450

swindling1527

vertigo1528

swimming1530

swindle1559

turnsickness1559

duseling1561

whirling1561

turn-sick giddiness1577

megrim1595

vertiginousness1599

whimsya1627

tiegoa1640

lightheadedness1645

swimmering1650

swim1817

swirling1825

swimminess1894

1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Vertigo, dizzinesse, the migramme.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §725 In every Megrim, or Vertigo, there is an Obtenebration joyned with a Semblance of Turning Round.

1679 J. Philips Female Poems 7 A giddy Megrim wheel'd about my head.

1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 109 A gentleman..was suddenly attacked with a severe pain in his forehead, accompanied with so much megrim and stomach sickness, as would have caused him to fall, had he not received support.

d. In plural. An unspecified illness; poor health. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun]

unhealc700

untrumnessc897

adleeOE

sicknessc967

cothec1000

unhealthc1000

woe?a1200

ail?c1225

lying?c1225

maladyc1275

unsoundc1275

feebless1297

languora1375

languishc1384

disease1393

aegritudea1400

lamea1400

maleasea1400

soughta1400

wilc1400

malefaction?a1425

firmityc1426

unwholesomenessc1449

ill1450

languenta1500

distemperancea1535

the valley of the shadow of death1535

affect?1537

affection?1541

distemperature1541

inability1547

sickliness1565

languishment1576

cause1578

unhealthfulness1589

crazedness1593

languorment1593

evilness1599

strickenness1599

craziness1602

distemper1604

unsoundness1605

invaletude1623

unhealthiness1634

achaque1647

unwellness1653

disailment1657

insalubrity1668

faintiness1683

queerness1687

invalidity1690

illness1692

ill health1698

ailment1708

illing1719

invalescence1724

peakingness1727

sickishness1727

valetudinariness1742

ailingness1776

brash1786

invalidism1794

poorliness1814

diseasement1826

invalidship1830

valetudinarianism1839

ailing1862

invalidhood1863

megrims1870

pourriture1890

immersement1903

bug1918

condition1920

1870 Galaxy Feb. 271 The New Englanders have some curious complaints, among which are ‘conniption fits’, ‘maggrums’ (megrims), ‘rheumatics’, and ‘hypo’.

1914 W. Owen Let. 17 Dec. (1967) 305 I have neither Cold, nor any manner of meegrums: tho' the weather is filthy.

2. In plural. Low spirits; melancholy, depression. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > nervous depression > [noun]

megrims1592

vapours1662

the vapours1711

black dog1776

all-overs1870

1592 Countess of Pembroke tr. P. de Mornay Disc. Life & Death 15 Such a crowne can cure the maigrims of the minde.

1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iii. i. sig. F1^v These are his megrims, firks and melancholies.

1689 C. Goodall Poems & Transl. 15 When Wine has fum'd into my head, My busie Senses all lie dead, And melancholy Megrims sink Into the Ocean of my Drink.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xlv. 284 If these megrims are the effect of Love, thank Heaven, I never knew what it was.

1823 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. 451 A very fine lady, and subject to the meagrims.

1887 G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 214 Nurses..having as many dislikes as a fashionable lady with the megrims.

1968 J. Carr Là-bas ii. viii. 90 Our excellent Miss Partridge, in tears and a fit of megrims, was conveyed home more than an hour ago.

1994 Time 4 July 75/1 The state suffers severe economic megrims and rattles with real earthquakes.

1996 S. King Desperation i. iii. 72 He was turning around, zipping his fly, talking mostly to keep the megrims away.

3. A whim, a fancy: a fad. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim

fantasya1450

wantonness1531

humour1533

worm?a1534

will1542

toy?1545

whey-worm1548

wild worm1548

freak1563

crotchet1573

fancy1579

whim-wham1580

whirligig1589

caper1592

megrim1593

spleen1594

kicksey-winsey1599

fegary1600

humorousness1604

curiosity1605

conundrum1607

whimsy1607

windmill1612

buzza1616

capriccioa1616

quirka1616

flama1625

maggota1625

fantasticality1631

capruch1634

gimcrack1639

whimseycado1654

caprich1656

excursion1662

frisk1665

caprice1673

fita1680

grub1681

fantasque1697

whim1697

frolic1711

flight1717

whigmaleery1730

vagary1753

maddock1787

kink1803

fizgig1824

fad1834

whimmery1837

fantod1839

brain crack1853

whimsy-whamsy1871

tic1896

tick1900

1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 23 Iago..died of a frensie, as he liued with a megrim.

1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xix. 147 Hee is troubled with a perpetuall migrim; at Sea hee wisheth to bee on Land, and on Land at sea.

1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote iv. xiii. 235 With Fifty Meagrims in his Head.

1716 J. Addison Drummer i. 10 Whims! Freaks! Megrims! indeed Mrs. Abigal.

1768 D. Garrick Let. 12 June (1963) II. 615 It would give great pleasure to Madam & Me, & save us from a world of Megrims, fancies & what not.

1811 Ld. Byron Let. 3 Nov. (1973) II. 126 I really thought, she treated him..with a due portion of conjugal contempt, but I dare say this was only the megrim of a Misogynist.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. xi. 241 Can't one work for sober truth as hard as for megrims?

1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 466/2 What confounded megrim has seized you?

1987 R. Mistry Tales from Firozsha Baag 80 The family began moving from city to city on the whims and megrims of his father's employer, the government.

4. In plural. Any of various diseases of animals characterized by incoordination, staggering, or falling; = stagger n.¹ 2a. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > staggers or gid

turn?1523

sturdiness1552

turn-sick1566

sturdy1570

dazy1577

stavers1597

(to have) the staggers1599

gid1601

giddy1603

turnabout1605

stacker1610

turning-evil1614

megrims1639

blind staggers1784

the goggles1793

dazing1799

stomach-staggers1831

turn-sick1834

turn-side1845

phalaris staggers1946

1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. iv. 69 These paines in the head..breed Megrims.

1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. 128 When the Sheep of a Kraal are seiz'd with the Megrims (the Hottentots call the Distemper by the Dutch Terms, Mall-Koppen i.e. disorder'd in the Head) the Inhabitants make propitiatory Sacrifices.

1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 39 The next..distemper incident to this kind of birds is the vertigo, or (as generally styled by the fancy) the megrims.

1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Lincs. 329 The meag runs, or rickets [in sheep], incurable.

1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 261 This is evidently the same disorder which Dr. Bechstein terms epilepsy, and Mr. Clater, the megrims or giddiness.

1850 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 321 The poor mare was suddenly seized with megrims, or mad staggers.

1933 W. E. Lyon First Aid Hints for Horse Owner v. 87 Megrims or Staggers..is the name given to an affection of the brain resulting in sudden loss of equilibrium.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	megrim
释义	megrimn.¹ Brit. /ˈmiːɡrᵻm/, U.S. /ˈmiɡrᵻm/ Forms: late Middle English midgrame, late Middle English midgrym, late Middle English mygrame, late Middle English mygrem, late Middle English mygreme, late Middle English mygreyme, late Middle English–1500s migrym, late Middle English–1500s myegrym, late Middle English–1500s mygrym, late Middle English–1600s migram, 1500s maigrim, 1500s megrym, 1500s megryme, 1500s meigryme, 1500s migrymme, 1500s mygrim, 1500s–1600s megrime, 1500s–1600s megrum, 1500s–1600s meigrim, 1500s– megrim, 1600s meagrom, 1600s megram, 1600s megreme, 1600s megrimme, 1600s megrome, 1600s megroome, 1600s migraim, 1600s migrame, 1600s migreame, 1600s migrim, 1600s mygram, 1600s–1800s meagrim, 1700s meag run (in sense 4), 1900s meegrum (rare); English regional 1800s magram, 1800s maugram (northern), 1800s mawgram (northern), 1800s– maigrim, 1800s– maygrim, 1800s– meagram, 1800s– meagrim, 1800s– meeagrum, 1800s– meegrim, 1800s– megrim, 1800s– megrum, 1800s– mogram (northern), 1800s– mogrum (northern); U.S. regional 1800s– maggrum (New England), 1900s– megrim (Midland), 1900s– megrum (Midland); Scottish pre-1700 magrame, pre-1700 magryme, pre-1700 maigram, pre-1700 megrum, pre-1700 migram, pre-1700 migramme, pre-1700 mygrame, pre-1700 mygrim, 1800s maigrum, 1800s megram, 1800s– meagrim, 1900s– megrim; Irish English 1900s– megrum, 1900s– meigrim. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French migraine. Etymology: < Middle French migraine (see migraine n.), with second syllable remodelled after grame adj., greme n., and grim adj.In form meag run in sense 4 remodelled after run n.² 1. a. Headache; spec. migraine. Also: a headache or attack of migraine. Now rare (U.S. regional and poetic). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in head > migraine demigranec1400 megrim1440 emigrane1483 hemicrane?1550 hemicrania1657 migraine1777 sick headache1784 brow-ague1855 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 337 Mygreyme, sekenesse [v.rr. migrym, midgrame, mygrene], emigranea. c1450 Agnus Castus (Bodl. 483) (1950) 191 (MED) Also yff a man haue þe mygreme or hed-ache, poyn thys herbe and temper hit with aysell. ?c1450 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. ix. 230 Warke in þe swldyrs & migram in þe heue[de]. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) iv. v. 87 The mygrame and other euyll passyons of the heed. ?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 615 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 77 All maner red eyn, bleryd eyn, and þe myegrym also. ?1567 Merie Tales Master Skelton sig. Avi^v Other whyle he woulde saye hee had the megrym in hys head. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 42 It is not a softe shooe that healeth the Gowte..nor a crown of Pearle that cureth the Meigrim. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xvii. iv. 640 The Megrim is properly a disease affecting the one side of the head, right, or left. 1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions vii. 328 By how much it is more honourable, to dye upon a Sword's point..then for a man to Snivel and Sneeze himself into another World; or to go away in a Meagrim. 1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 229 For the Megrim, they smoak..the dried Bark of a Pomegranate Tree. 1797 L. Hopkins Guillotina in Connecticut Courant 9 Jan. 1/1 The hiccups, megrim, gout, and phthisic, All bless'd the Lightning-rods of Physic. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. iii. x. 1005 Brow-ague, or megrims, as it is sometimes called. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 543 Attacks of megrim are often accompanied by..contraction of the temporal artery. 1933 Amer. Speech 8 i. 51 Megrum, a severe one-sided headache, migraine. 1953 V. Randolph & G. P. Wilson Down in Holler 152 An illiterate farmer in Kansas or Illinois would not be likely to say megrim when he meant headache, but this word is quite common in the Ozarks. 1972 W. H. Auden in New Yorker 24 June 32/1 You've repelled all germ invasions, but never chastised my tantrums with a megrim. b. figurative. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete. ΚΠ ?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew v. f. lvij^v The weke and feble eyes of the world, deseased with the mygrim and accustomed to darcknesse. 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 228 Send me something to rid me of the Megreme I have taken in reading the sotteries of these times. ?c1660 R. Wild Poems (1670) 27 The meagrim of opinions, new or old, The colic in the conscience, he could cure. 1663 G. Mackenzie Religio Stoici 39 Finding that fortunes megrim could not be cured. 1778 H. Brooke Impostor v. iv, in Coll. Pieces III. 81 These are the very megrims of existence; The dizzy rounds of thought, that foundering drown In their own whirlpools. †c. Dizziness or vertigo, esp. accompanying a migraine. Also: an attack of such symptoms. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [noun] dizzinessc900 swimeOE swinglingc1000 turningc1230 turngiddya1382 giddiness1398 turngiddiness1398 vertiginyc1400 turn-sick?c1450 swindling1527 vertigo1528 swimming1530 swindle1559 turnsickness1559 duseling1561 whirling1561 turn-sick giddiness1577 megrim1595 vertiginousness1599 whimsya1627 tiegoa1640 lightheadedness1645 swimmering1650 swim1817 swirling1825 swimminess1894 1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Vertigo, dizzinesse, the migramme. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §725 In every Megrim, or Vertigo, there is an Obtenebration joyned with a Semblance of Turning Round. 1679 J. Philips Female Poems 7 A giddy Megrim wheel'd about my head. 1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 109 A gentleman..was suddenly attacked with a severe pain in his forehead, accompanied with so much megrim and stomach sickness, as would have caused him to fall, had he not received support. d. In plural. An unspecified illness; poor health. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] unhealc700 untrumnessc897 adleeOE sicknessc967 cothec1000 unhealthc1000 woe?a1200 ail?c1225 lying?c1225 maladyc1275 unsoundc1275 feebless1297 languora1375 languishc1384 disease1393 aegritudea1400 lamea1400 maleasea1400 soughta1400 wilc1400 malefaction?a1425 firmityc1426 unwholesomenessc1449 ill1450 languenta1500 distemperancea1535 the valley of the shadow of death1535 affect?1537 affection?1541 distemperature1541 inability1547 sickliness1565 languishment1576 cause1578 unhealthfulness1589 crazedness1593 languorment1593 evilness1599 strickenness1599 craziness1602 distemper1604 unsoundness1605 invaletude1623 unhealthiness1634 achaque1647 unwellness1653 disailment1657 insalubrity1668 faintiness1683 queerness1687 invalidity1690 illness1692 ill health1698 ailment1708 illing1719 invalescence1724 peakingness1727 sickishness1727 valetudinariness1742 ailingness1776 brash1786 invalidism1794 poorliness1814 diseasement1826 invalidship1830 valetudinarianism1839 ailing1862 invalidhood1863 megrims1870 pourriture1890 immersement1903 bug1918 condition1920 1870 Galaxy Feb. 271 The New Englanders have some curious complaints, among which are ‘conniption fits’, ‘maggrums’ (megrims), ‘rheumatics’, and ‘hypo’. 1914 W. Owen Let. 17 Dec. (1967) 305 I have neither Cold, nor any manner of meegrums: tho' the weather is filthy. 2. In plural. Low spirits; melancholy, depression. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > nervous depression > [noun] megrims1592 vapours1662 the vapours1711 black dog1776 all-overs1870 1592 Countess of Pembroke tr. P. de Mornay Disc. Life & Death 15 Such a crowne can cure the maigrims of the minde. 1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iii. i. sig. F1^v These are his megrims, firks and melancholies. 1689 C. Goodall Poems & Transl. 15 When Wine has fum'd into my head, My busie Senses all lie dead, And melancholy Megrims sink Into the Ocean of my Drink. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xlv. 284 If these megrims are the effect of Love, thank Heaven, I never knew what it was. 1823 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. 451 A very fine lady, and subject to the meagrims. 1887 G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 214 Nurses..having as many dislikes as a fashionable lady with the megrims. 1968 J. Carr Là-bas ii. viii. 90 Our excellent Miss Partridge, in tears and a fit of megrims, was conveyed home more than an hour ago. 1994 Time 4 July 75/1 The state suffers severe economic megrims and rattles with real earthquakes. 1996 S. King Desperation i. iii. 72 He was turning around, zipping his fly, talking mostly to keep the megrims away. 3. A whim, a fancy: a fad. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim fantasya1450 wantonness1531 humour1533 worm?a1534 will1542 toy?1545 whey-worm1548 wild worm1548 freak1563 crotchet1573 fancy1579 whim-wham1580 whirligig1589 caper1592 megrim1593 spleen1594 kicksey-winsey1599 fegary1600 humorousness1604 curiosity1605 conundrum1607 whimsy1607 windmill1612 buzza1616 capriccioa1616 quirka1616 flama1625 maggota1625 fantasticality1631 capruch1634 gimcrack1639 whimseycado1654 caprich1656 excursion1662 frisk1665 caprice1673 fita1680 grub1681 fantasque1697 whim1697 frolic1711 flight1717 whigmaleery1730 vagary1753 maddock1787 kink1803 fizgig1824 fad1834 whimmery1837 fantod1839 brain crack1853 whimsy-whamsy1871 tic1896 tick1900 1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 23 Iago..died of a frensie, as he liued with a megrim. 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xix. 147 Hee is troubled with a perpetuall migrim; at Sea hee wisheth to bee on Land, and on Land at sea. 1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote iv. xiii. 235 With Fifty Meagrims in his Head. 1716 J. Addison Drummer i. 10 Whims! Freaks! Megrims! indeed Mrs. Abigal. 1768 D. Garrick Let. 12 June (1963) II. 615 It would give great pleasure to Madam & Me, & save us from a world of Megrims, fancies & what not. 1811 Ld. Byron Let. 3 Nov. (1973) II. 126 I really thought, she treated him..with a due portion of conjugal contempt, but I dare say this was only the megrim of a Misogynist. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. xi. 241 Can't one work for sober truth as hard as for megrims? 1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 466/2 What confounded megrim has seized you? 1987 R. Mistry Tales from Firozsha Baag 80 The family began moving from city to city on the whims and megrims of his father's employer, the government. 4. In plural. Any of various diseases of animals characterized by incoordination, staggering, or falling; = stagger n.¹ 2a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > staggers or gid turn?1523 sturdiness1552 turn-sick1566 sturdy1570 dazy1577 stavers1597 (to have) the staggers1599 gid1601 giddy1603 turnabout1605 stacker1610 turning-evil1614 megrims1639 blind staggers1784 the goggles1793 dazing1799 stomach-staggers1831 turn-sick1834 turn-side1845 phalaris staggers1946 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. iv. 69 These paines in the head..breed Megrims. 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. 128 When the Sheep of a Kraal are seiz'd with the Megrims (the Hottentots call the Distemper by the Dutch Terms, Mall-Koppen i.e. disorder'd in the Head) the Inhabitants make propitiatory Sacrifices. 1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 39 The next..distemper incident to this kind of birds is the vertigo, or (as generally styled by the fancy) the megrims. 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Lincs. 329 The meag runs, or rickets [in sheep], incurable. 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 261 This is evidently the same disorder which Dr. Bechstein terms epilepsy, and Mr. Clater, the megrims or giddiness. 1850 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 321 The poor mare was suddenly seized with megrims, or mad staggers. 1933 W. E. Lyon First Aid Hints for Horse Owner v. 87 Megrims or Staggers..is the name given to an affection of the brain resulting in sudden loss of equilibrium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). megrimn.² Brit. /ˈmiːɡrᵻm/, U.S. /ˈmiɡrᵻm/ Forms: 1800s– megrim, 1900s– megrin (Scottish). Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare meagre n.² The flatfish Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (family Scophthalmidae or Bothidae), found in deeper waters off the Atlantic coasts of Europe; also called whiff, sail-fluke. Also: the related scaldfish, Arnoglossus laterna. ΚΠ 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 254 The Scaldfish, or Megrim, as it is called in Cornwall. 1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 69 The Scald-fish, or Megrim, or Smooth Sole (Arnoglossus laterna). 1900 Dundee Advert. 5 Jan. 2 When whitches and megrins have arrived in any great quantity, values have speedily dropped. 1901 Scotsman 14 Mar. 4/4 Aberdeen..prices,..megrims., 20s. to 22s. per box. 1959 A. Hardy Fish & Fisheries x. 205 Lepidorhombus whiff-iagonis, the megrim..has a narrow body.., with rough scales and very large eyes and mouth. 1991 Times 31 Aug. (Sat. Review) 11/4 You have put the wrong EC-required size-label on the box of megrim you have just landed. 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