rheumily
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9.9
In a way that makes the eyes wet with tears or the nose runny
- adverb
- Archaic
:
rémulo
- He sneezed frequently and rubbed his nose rheumily as the pollen count rose in spring.
Examples
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The child woke up rheumily, with watery eyes and a stuffy nose from the cold.
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He glared rheumily, but a nod from Dougal made him oblige with a bottle and glass.
Fiction book (1991) -
She looked at me rheumily after her allergies flared up, tears running down her cheeks.
Surface Forms
rheumily positive
Morphology
Etymology
Rheumily comes from the root rheum, which means 'a watery flow' and has the same idea as the simple word 'flow'. So, to do something rheumily is to do it in a 'watery' or teary way, like eyes or a nose that are wet.