ACHE, ACHING
ADJECTIVES
► ACHEY ► ACHY suffering from aches → 1878
► ACHY-BREAKY aching, hurt; also, sad, heart-rending → 1992 colloq.
► DIRLING aching, quivering, tingling → 1853 Sc.
► MISERISH aching; painful → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► NAGGY aching with a dull pain → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► ACHAGE an aching state → 1878 humorous usage
► CRICKLE a muscular ache or pain; a feeling of stiffness in the muscles → 1680 obs.
► CRICKLING a muscular ache or pain; a feeling of stiffness in the muscles → 1644 obs.
► CRINKS AND CRANKS aches and pains; twisting or contorting of the body, induced by pain → 1865 Eng. dial.
► MISERY ► THE MISERY an ache or pain → 1827 Amer. dial.
► WARCH ► WARK an ache, a pain → 900 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
VERBS
► FARE to ache, to throb → 1781 Eng. dial.
► GEAL ► GELL to ache or tingle with cold → 1600 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► GILVER to ache, to throb; said of the head in a headache, of a wound, etc. → 1830 Eng. dial.
► NAG to ache persistently; to keep up a dull gnawing pain → 1836
► NANG to ache persistently; of a pain: to gnaw → 1882 Eng. dial.
► NIGG to ache with pain → 1928 Sc.
► NIP to ache, to smart, to tingle with cold → 1736 Sc.
► NIRL to ache continuously, to gnaw → 1947 Sc.
► PANG to ache, to pain, to hurt; to pierce or penetrate with acute physical or mental pain → 1502
► RAGE to ache violently; said of a tooth or sore → 1567
► TAKE ON to ache, to be painful → 1893 Eng. dial.
► WARCH ► WARK to ache, to suffer pain; to throb painfully → 1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► YAIK to ache → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► YAUK to ache → 1898 Sc.
► YAW to ache → 1887 Sc.
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