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plaguy


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Definition:
bothersome, irritating

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 DORINE
 Leave this discussion till another time;
 Now, think how you'll stave off this plaguy marriage.

Moliere. Tartuffe
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He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps, in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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