词汇 | all-overs |
词源 | all-overs. An American southernism that goes back to at least the early 19th century, the all-overs describes a general state of nervousness. Something close to it is first recorded in an 1820 song entitled “Oh, What a Row”: “I’m seized with an all-overness, I faint, I die!” |
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