noun
Meaning 1
A headache; a migraine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Standard Lemma guide
megrim
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UK: /ˈmiːɡɹɪm/
noun
Meaning 2
A fancy, a whim, a caprice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 3
See megrims (“depression; any of various diseases of animals”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
Examples
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:megrim.
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noun
Meaning 4
A flatfish of the genus Lepidorhombus native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean; specifically, a Cornish sole, sail-fluke, witch or whiff (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: migraine, sick headache, hemicrania
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: headache, head ache, cephalalgia
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French migraigne, semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin hēmicrānia (“pain in one half of the head”), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrāníă), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-, half”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “skull”) (whence also English cranium). Doublet of migraine and hemicrania.
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Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Serbo-Croatian: patarača — type of flatfish of the genus Lepidorhombus
- Bulgarian: мегрим (megrim) — Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
- Catalan: bruixa — Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
- Faroese: glaskvoysa — Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
- Finnish: lasikampela — Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
- French: cardine franche — Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
- Galician: rapante — Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
- Galician: meiga — Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
- Hungarian: nyelvhal — Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
- Russian: мегрим (megrim) — Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
- Serbo-Croatian: patarača oštronoska — Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
- Spanish: gallo — Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
- Spanish: gallo del norte (L. whiffiagonis) — Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis