FAINT, FAINTED, FAINTING, FAINTNESS (weak and dizzy)
ADJECTIVES
► AFAINT in a weakened or enfeebled state; tired, fatigued; weak and dizzy; close to losing consciousness; faint → 1834
► AFEYNTED rendered faint, enfeebled → 1393 obs.
► BABBISH weak, helpless, faint → .1876 Eng. dial.
► DADDET faint, weary, tired through overwork → 1908 Sc.
► FAINTFUL ready to faint; causing or indicating faintness → 1589 obs.
► FAINTIFIED weak, faint → 1933 Amer. dial.
► FAINTISH weak, faint → 1965 Amer. dial.
► FAINTIVE inclined to faint, faintish, languid → 1790 rare exc. Sc.
► FAINTLY inclined to faint → 1892 Sc. obs.
► FAINTY faint, sickly, languid; later, inclined to swoon; causing faintness → 1530 obs. exc. poetic usage
► FAINTY-SICK physically weak, faint → 1926 Amer. dial.
► FANSOME feeling faint → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAID OUT injured; having fainted → Amer. World War I sl.
► LANGUESCENT growing faint or languid → 1837
► LANGUIFIC that makes weak or faint → 1727 obs.
► LANGUIFICAL that makes weak or faint → 1656 obs.
► LEAR hungry; faint and exhausted with hunger → 1852 Eng. dial.
► LEARY hungry, faint and exhausted from hunger → 1750 Eng. dial.
► MAWKISH slightly indisposed; faint; sick from drinking → 1896 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SAPPY pallid, sickly, faint → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SWOWN fainting, in a swoon → c1000 obs.
► TEARY weak, frail, delicate; faint → 1825 Eng. dial.
► WAIRSH weak, delicate, wanting in stamina; faint, as from want of food; sickly-looking → 1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WALLOW pinched-looking; faint from want or illness → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WALLOWISH pinched and miserable-looking; faint from hunger → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WAMBLY giddy, faint, sick, esp. with hunger → 1879 Eng. dial.
► WELSH pinched and miserable-looking; faint from hunger → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WOOZY dizzy, faint, unwell → 1897
ADVERBS
► AFAINT in a fainting state → 1878
► ALIST recovering from faintness or decay; used with regard to one recovering from a swoon → 1768 Sc. obs.
► ASOOND in a fainting fit → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► DWALM ► DWAM a swoon; a fainting fit → a1513 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FAINT faintness → a1300
► FAINT-FIT a fainting fit → 1795 obs.
► FAINTINGNESS faintness → 1634 obs.
► FAINT-OUT a feeling of weakness or faintness → 1965 Amer. dial.
► FAINTS, THE a tendency to faint → c1890 colloq.
► FALL-OUT a fainting spell → 1970 Amer. dial.
► FLICKER a faint → 1900 Amer. dial.
► GONENESS a sinking feeling; weakness, faintness, exhaustion; great depression → 1848 Amer. dial.
► NOSEDIVE a fainting spell, or a fall → 1920 sl., orig. US
► SOUND a swoon or fainting fit → 1400 obs.
► SWEAM a sudden fit of sickness or fainting; a swoon → c1415 obs.
► SWELTING a fainting or being overcome with heat → c1460 obs.
► SWOUND a fainting fit; a swoon → c1440 arch.
► SWOW a swoon, a fainting fit → a1325 obs.
► TALM faintness, exhaustion → c1375 obs.
► TAUM ► TAWM a fit of faintness or sickness → 1846 Sc.
► VAPORS sickness; a fainting spell; nausea → 20C colloq.
► WAMBLE faintness → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WEAK JERKS a feeling of faintness and shakiness or palpitations, often as a result of hunger, fear, or anxiety → a1978 Amer. dial.
► WEAK TREMBLES a feeling of faintness and shakiness or palpitations, often as a result of hunger, fear, or anxiety → 1889 Amer. dial.
NOUNS -PERSON
► ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE a woman in a faint → 1921 sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
► BLAKE to become out of breath, to faint; esp. of children exhausted with crying, coughing, or laughing → 1867 Eng. dial.
► BOP OUT to faint, to pass out → 1970 Amer. dial.
► CHUCK A SEVEN to faint → 1958 sl.
► CHUCK ONE’S ACE to pass out → 1906 Aust. sl.
► DEFAULT to fail in strength or vigour, to faint; to suffer failure → 1382 obs.
► DWALM ► DWAM to faint, to swoon; to become unconscious; also, to sicken or fail in health → a1513 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FADE to grow small or weak; to decline, decay, fail, or faint; to shrink → 1388 obs.
► FAINT 1. to depress, to enfeeble, to weaken; to make faint or weak → c1386
2. to become faint; to grow weak or feeble, to decline → c1400 obs. exc. poetic usage
► FAINTEN to make faint, to depress, to dispirit → 1612 obs.
► FAINT OVER to fall over in a faint → 1954 Amer. dial.
► FALL OUT to faint, to lose consciousness → 1884 Amer. dial.
► FLICKER to faint, or to pretend to faint → 1900 Amer. dial.
► KECK to faint or swoon suddenly → 1825 Sc. obs.
► KLUNK OUT to faint or fall down → 1970s US sl.
► LANGUEFY to make faint or languid → 1607 obs.
► OWMAWT to swoon, to faint → 1440 obs.
► PALL 1. to become faint; to faint, to fail in strength, virtue, etc. → 1390 obs.
2. to make faint or feeble; to enfeeble, to weaken; to daunt, to appal → 1690 obs.
► PASS OUT to faint → 20C colloq.
► PUT ONE’S HEART AWAY to cause one to faint → 1801 Sc.
► QUAIL to languish; to fall ill; to faint; to have a sinking sensation in the stomach → 1790 Eng. dial.
► QUEAL to languish; to fail in any way; to fall ill; to faint; to have a sinking sensation in the stomach → 1515 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► QUOATH ► QUOTHE to faint → 1567 obs.
► SILE to fall down in a swoon; to faint away → 1790 Eng. dial.
► SOUND to swoon, to faint → 1393 Eng. dial.
► SWEAM to be overcome with faintness → c1440 obs.
► SWEB to faint, to swoon → 1599 N. Eng. dial.
► SWELT to faint, to swoon, to be overcome → c1330 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SWOUND to swoon, to faint → 1530 arch.
► SWOW to swoon, to faint → c1250 obs.
► TAKE A PASSER to pass out, to faint → 1970s US sl.
► TALM to become exhausted; to fail, to tire, to faint, to swoon → c1325 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TAUM to fall gently asleep; to faint; to become unconscious → 1887 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TAWM ► TAWM OVER to swoon; to fall from faintness or sickness → 1684 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TIPE to tip over; to overturn; to fall over; to faint, to swoon → 1873 Eng. dial.
► WAMBLE to feel faint or sick → 1879 Eng.
dial.
► WHITE-EYE to be overcome by heat or exhaustion while working; to faint from exhaustion; to quit working, to quit on one; to desert, to abandon → 1911 Amer. dial.