hay fever
6
2.7
- noun
- /heɪ ˈfiːvər/
:
fiebre del heno
- I also have eczema, hay fever, dizzy spells, fainting, and croup.
- hay fever and asthma
- hay fever and eczema
- current hay fever
Ice latte laced with stuff that gives you hay fever.
- Ice latte laced with stuff that gives you hay fever.
- Well, I unfortunately, like so many, suffer from hay fever and I have got to love quercetin.
- Matt is allergic to grass cats, he's got hay fever.
- And I don't know if I properly have hay fever, but I do get watery eyes.
- I interrupt them and say it sadly is great but but my hay fever.
Examples
-
I have hay fever.
-
It gives me hay fever.
-
I learned that I had hay fever, so I quit.
-
- Have you got hay fever?
-
I got hay fever too.
-
-l have terrible hay fever.
-
That's probably why my hay fever is so bad.
-
I used to suffer from hay fever about as severe as Jasper's.
Blog text (34) -
Aside from occasional hay fever, he has no chronic medical conditions and does not take medication on a regular basis.
Academic text (2000) -
Every spring, my hay fever makes it difficult to enjoy the outdoors due to constant sneezing and itchy eyes.
Synonyms
An allergic reaction to pollen that makes your nose and eyes itchy and causes sneezing, often in spring
The nose becomes swollen when the body reacts to things like pollen, causing sneezing, itching and a runny nose
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
hay + fever
The compound links 'hay' (dried grass/pollen source) with an illness, so a learner who knows both words can infer it is a seasonal sickness related to hay; however 'fever' usually implies elevated body temperature, which is misleading because hay fever is an allergic inflammation without necessarily having a fever. Many languages use a similar construction for this allergy, so the relation is partially transparent but the exact sense is not fully predictable from the parts.
Etymology
Hay fever comes from farm life: when people handled hay, pollen and dust made them sneeze and feel like they had a 'fever'. That's why hay fever now means a seasonal 'allergy' that makes your nose and eyes itchy.