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noun ˈmiːɡrɪmˈmiɡrɪm archaic 1megrimsDepression; low spirits. exercise could banish most megrims Example sentencesExamples - Women have moods and megrims.
2A whim or fancy. he moved from city to city on the whims and megrims of his employer Example sentencesExamples - Converted, she, by the great grief that had befallen her friends; made ashamed of whining over megrims when death and shame were making havoc in the little home.
Synonyms impulse, urge, notion, fancy, whimsy, foible, idea, caprice, conceit, vagary, kink, crotchet, craze, fad, passion, inclination, bent 3 old-fashioned term for migraine
Origin Late Middle English: variant of migraine. migraine from Late Middle English: People unfortunate enough to suffer from migraine know that this sort of throbbing headache usually affects one side of the head—reflected in the origin of the word. It is a highly shortened form of Greek hemi- ‘half’ and kranion ‘skull’, the source of English cranium (mid 16th century). Until the 20th century the form megrim, also used for a fit of being difficult, was more common than migraine.
noun ˈmiːɡrɪmˈmiɡrɪm 1A deep-water flatfish of the European Atlantic coast. Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis, family Scophthalmidae (or Bothidae) Also called sail-fluke, whiff Example sentencesExamples - It was a red letter day for me as I like to catch as many different species of fish as I can and earlier in the day I had caught my first ever megrim off Erris Head.
- Even though this rig is especially good for gurnards, it also proves superbly successful for dabs, plaice, megrim, even small turbot and brill, also haddock, cod and whiting.
- Not only will the cuts apply to cod but will apply also to associated species such as whiting, haddock, sole, saithe, monk, plaice, prawns, hake and megrim.
- Additionally from Wednesday last Ireland's fishing industry was ordered to stop fishing for monkfish, prawns, white pollack and megrims as the country's quota for the current year had already been reached.
- We welcome the decision to increase the quotas for monkfish, megrim and haddock in the southwestern waters.
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another term for scaldfish Example sentencesExamples - The term would include flatfish belonging to the genera Citharus, Lepidorhombus, Arnoglossus, and Bothus; the English terms 'megrim' and 'scaldfish' apply to some, but some Mediterranean species have no English names.
Origin Mid 19th century: of unknown origin. nounˈmiɡrɪmˈmēɡrim archaic 1megrimsDepression; low spirits. fresh air and exercise, she generally found, could banish most megrims Example sentencesExamples - Women have moods and megrims.
2A whim or fancy. Example sentencesExamples - Converted, she, by the great grief that had befallen her friends; made ashamed of whining over megrims when death and shame were making havoc in the little home.
Synonyms impulse, urge, notion, fancy, whimsy, foible, idea, caprice, conceit, vagary, kink, crotchet, craze, fad, passion, inclination, bent 3 old-fashioned term for migraine
Origin Late Middle English: variant of migraine. nounˈmiɡrɪmˈmēɡrim 1A deep-water flatfish of the European Atlantic coast. Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis, family Scophthalmidae (or Bothidae) Also called sail-fluke, whiff Example sentencesExamples - We welcome the decision to increase the quotas for monkfish, megrim and haddock in the southwestern waters.
- Additionally from Wednesday last Ireland's fishing industry was ordered to stop fishing for monkfish, prawns, white pollack and megrims as the country's quota for the current year had already been reached.
- It was a red letter day for me as I like to catch as many different species of fish as I can and earlier in the day I had caught my first ever megrim off Erris Head.
- Not only will the cuts apply to cod but will apply also to associated species such as whiting, haddock, sole, saithe, monk, plaice, prawns, hake and megrim.
- Even though this rig is especially good for gurnards, it also proves superbly successful for dabs, plaice, megrim, even small turbot and brill, also haddock, cod and whiting.
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another term for scaldfish Example sentencesExamples - The term would include flatfish belonging to the genera Citharus, Lepidorhombus, Arnoglossus, and Bothus; the English terms 'megrim' and 'scaldfish' apply to some, but some Mediterranean species have no English names.
Origin Mid 19th century: of unknown origin. |