Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From querimony + -ous.
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Examples
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Forgive me, quick-witted reader, if this quodlibet to Q has made you querimonious; I'll leave the letter and return to Q, the woman, after I tax you with one more notion.
'Roads to Quoz' 2008
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Kn. Were I querimonious, I shou'd resent the affront this Balatroon has offer'd me.
Sir Patient Fancy 1678
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_ Were I querimonious, I shou'd resent the Affront this
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664
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