Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Vexatious; bothersome.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Plaguestricken; infected with the plague; marked by the plague or other foul disease.
  • Troublesome; vexatious; annoying.
  • Vexatiously; deucedly: as, plaguy hard; a plaguy long time.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting. [Colloq.] Also used adverbially.”

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Causing annoyance or bother, irritating

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a disagreeable manner
  • adjective causing irritation or annoyance

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Examples

  • I am not deprest, I am not ill, but this plaguy suspence worries me sadly sometimes.

    Letter 299 2009

  • I have found some others nearly equal to her, but they are like white-Black Birds, plaguy rare. —

    Letter 209 2009

  • This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression.

    PodCastle » 2010 » February 2010

  • This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression.

    PodCastle » PodCastle 89: The Queen’s Triplets 2010

  • On the other hand, there might be a word or two to say about the rigging; if this was not all it should have been, the fault lay entirely with the plaguy considerations of our budget.

    The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier 2009

  • Moreover, how am I to know that this plaguy fellow is actually related to me? —

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • And sometimes they be so plaguy sulky, they tempt me to give 'em a knock a little matter too hard, and then they'll fall you into a fit, like, and go off in a twinkle. '

    Camilla 2008

  • A pedant angler, I call him, a plaguy angler, so let him huff away, and turn we to thee and to thy sweet charm in fishing for men.

    Letters to Dead Authors 2006

  • She gave me a saucy answer, as I was disposed to think it, because I had just then a twinge, that I could scarce bear; for pain is a plaguy thing to a man of my lively spirits.

    Pamela 2006

  • England, and follow your example, I think — turn hermit, or some plaguy thing or other, and see what a constant course of penitence and mortification will do for me.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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  • "There was young Nat Swaine, once the bravest boat-header out of all Nantucket and the Vineyard; he joined the meeting, and never came to good. He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones."

    - Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 18

    June 3, 2009

  • There once was a young Nat Swaine

    A brave sailor as Melville makes plain

    But fearful of being plaguy

    He came over all vague: he

    Never went a-whaling again.

    June 4, 2009

  • I'm loving came over all vague

    June 4, 2009