feversome

English

Alternative forms

• fever-some

Etymology

From fever +‎ -some.

Adjective

feversome (comparative more feversome, superlative most feversome)

1. Characterised or marked by fever
   • 2013, Melissa Marr, Tim Pratt, Rags & Bones:

     I picked up the figure, and was further surprised to find it very cold, as cold as a scoop of ice from the coolth-vendors you may have seen along the street here, offering their wares to chill a drink or a feversome brow.

   • 2015, T. Weber, Our Dance Across the Plains:

     It is quite a fitful fever-some sleep that little beetle is experiencing.