numby
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numby (comparative more numby, superlative most numby)
- (obsolete) Somewhat numb; numbed.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- My hands are so stiffe and nummie, that I can hardly write for my selfe, so that what I have once scribled, I had rather frame it anew than take the paines to correct it; and I reade but little better.
- 1868, The London Lancet:
- The pains extend down the legs, with a numby, burning feeling.