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Vapourish

adjective
1.
Resembling or characteristic of vapor.  Synonyms: vaporific, vaporish, vaporous, vapourific, vapourous.






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"Vapourish" Quotes from Famous Books



... and all manner of such-like vapouring and vapourish schemes are floating in my head, which at the same time aches with the thought of parting from you, and is perplext at the idea of I-cannot-tell-what-about notion that I have not made you half so comfortable as I ought to have done, and a melancholy ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas

... have a great mind to tell you that I am 'uncomfortable,' if only to make you come to town; where no one ever more delighted in seeing you, nor is there any one to whom I would sooner turn for consolation in my most vapourish moments. The truth is, I have 'no lack of argument' to ponder upon of the most gloomy description, but this arises from other causes. Some day or other, when we are veterans, I may tell you a tale of present and past times; and it is not from ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

... honest Belton. But a man cannot be ill, or vapourish, but thou liftest up thy shriek-owl note, and killest him immediately. None but a fellow, who is for a drummer in death's forlorn-hope, could take so much delight, as thou dost, in beating a dead-march with thy goose-quills. Whereas, ...
— Clarissa, Or The History Of A Young Lady, Volume 8 • Samuel Richardson



Words linked to "Vapourish" :   vapourous, vaporific, gaseous



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