UNDER THE WEATHER

  

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UNDER THE WEATHER

Definition: UNDER THE WEATHER

UNDER THE WEATHER

1. Ill; also, financially embarrassed. [Colloq. U. S.] --Bartlett.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Specialty Definition: UNDER THE WEATHER

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Tips from 1870

Usage: Under the Weather. "Are you well?" "No; I have been quite under the weather." Substitute sick or ill, for the colloquial expression under the weather. Source: Slips of Speech.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: UNDER THE WEATHER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disease

Adjective: diseased; ailing; Verb: ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather; valetudinary.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Sounds Captioned with "UNDER THE WEATHER".

PlayCaption
Sniffling; cold; sick; sickly; under the weather.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: UNDER THE WEATHER

Expression using "UNDER THE WEATHER": be under the weather. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: UNDER THE WEATHER

Language Translations for "UNDER THE WEATHER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

jam pa qejf (be under the weather). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متوعك صحيا. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неразположен (averse, chippy, indisposed, mean, off color, off colour, out of sorts, poorly, queer, seedy, squeamish, unwell), махмурлия (dopey, dopy, rocky), потиснат (heavy, melancholy, muffled, oppressed, pent, sullen). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

不快 (be displeased, be in low spirits, be indisposed, be out of sorts, be unhappy, feel under the weather). (various references)

   

French

  

être mal fichu (be under the weather). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αδιάθετος (off colour, unwell). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לא בקו "בריאות (below par, indisposed, off color, unwell). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

van benne egy kis nyomás (have a drop in one's eye, to be under the weather). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erunday ethay eatherway.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sentindo-se mal, baqueado. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нездоровый (ailing, dicky, diseased, doughy, indisposed, insalubrious, noisome, poorly, seedy, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsound, unwell, unwholesome). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

u novčanoj neprilici (weather: under the weather). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

indispuesto (dog-sick, indisposed, off color, off colour, queer, unfit, unwell), bajo las aguas. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

krasslig (ailing, bad, cachectic, ill, off color, off colour, seedy, unwell), bakfull (crapulous, hung over). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, lit up, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), keyifsiz (ailing, blue, cheerless, dejected, dispirited, doleful, down, humorless, humourless, in the doldrums, indisposed, mean, off color, off colour, out of humor, out of humour, out of sorts, poor spirited, poorly, queer, seedy, sick, unwell), kafası dumanlı (fuddled, hazy, in the wind, shot, sloshed, tipsy), hasta (ailing, buff, case, client, diseased, fan, fanatical, ill, in bad health, invalid, patient, poorly, sick, sufferer, unsound, unwell, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: UNDER THE WEATHER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-e-h-h-n-r-r-t-t-u-w"

-4 letters: truehearted, unweathered.

-5 letters: enwreathed, headhunter, thereunder, threatened, threatener, underwater, untethered, unwreathed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Sounds
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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