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vapourish

a. 1 Characteristic of vapour. 2 (context dated English) hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish

WordNet
vapourish

adj. resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds" [syn: vaporific, vaporish, vaporous]

Usage examples of "vapourish".

He even launched into an ethnographic digression: the German was vapourish, the French woman licentious, the Italian passionate.

A disgusting feeling of nausea, a kind of vapourish tightness behind his nose.

As the great red ball of a sun began to rise, thrusting through reddish-black vapourish folds, the street lamps of Kenbourne Vale went out gradually.

Lady Montford does not appear to me to be a vapourish female, but it is no wonder her sensibilities are overset.

Mrs Allan, an anxious, vapourish woman with a hypochondriacal tendency, alternately caressed and ignored Edgar.

She was neither rich enough nor impressionable enough to have walked out on a well-paid job simply in order to indulge a vapourish mood.

If you were the most vapourish female imaginable, I must still lend an attentive ear to your story: do not let us forget that a gatekeeper, stationed almost at your door, has disappeared under circumstances which one can only call mysterious!