We have seen this word as diacritical term "accent aigue".
e.g. "é". But in next to last chapter, one of the villains
is described as having "lemon peel eye" (meaning his is jaundiced)and feverish, and Long John Silver menitons his have had "ague".
ague (pronounce a gyew)
n.
5ME < OFr ague < ML (febris) acuta, violent (fever): see ACUTE6
1 a fever, usually malarial, marked by regularly recurring chills
2 a chill; fit of shivering
a[gu[ish 7a4gy1 i*8
adj.
Yes, it's interesting to read about how ailments were described. I was just talking with a friend last night about how people used to refer to 'the rheumatism' and 'the neuralgia.'
can't ague with that....
somebody had to say it.
No, din't nobody *have to say it
My father had a patient who complained of pantomime poisoning.
complained of pantomime poisoning
most people do.
I never heard of anyone else with that complaint.
Explain, please.
As a joke, I've heard DT's called "Delicious Trembles."
Explain, please.
sorry, I was just making a bad joke about most people hating mimes... one might find them "poisonous"...
Dear etaoin: It's been a long time since I saw a mime.
There were a couple good ones in the silent movie days,
and in vaudeville. Very popular then.
I find mimes about as entertaining as Chinese plate spinners.
Dear etaoin: do you have a gender problem? You seem to be having a period.
haha! nah, I was just being a mime...
Dear etaoin: but you are confused. Mimes may be silent,
but they are not invisible.
I won't ague that I'm confused, but how else to be lexicographically mimish but with invisibility?
I have to admit AWADtalk lacks pictorial power. One mime scene I'd like to have seen was Ed Wynn, hiding under W.C.Fields' billiard table, making faces at the audience, until laughs in wrong places clued W.C.Fields in, and he used butt end of cue stick to minimize the mimery. The audience liked it so well, producers wanted act repeated, but Ed Wynn declined.
Besides, if he was invisible, how'd you know it was he?