hysteric

UK /hɪsˈtɛɹɪk/ US /hɪsˈtɛɹɪk/
adj 1noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Hysterical; relating to hysteria.

Yes, my dravving-room is an abſolute regiſter-office for candidate actors, and poets vvithout character;—then to be continually alarmed vvith Miſſes and Ma'ams piping hiſteric changes on Juliets and Dorindas, Pollys and Ophelias; […]

We also find gamblers of this type among some frigid hysteric women, who seem to treat gambling as they treat men, coldly and spongingly.

noun

1

A hysterical person.

“Which girl was it now?” he asks a second time. ¶ “Oh, you know, the hysteric,” Eleanor says, “the one who was parading her bazooms in your face.”

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