all-fourey

Updated: May 26, 2025

The doctor's friend was in the positive degree of hoarseness, puffiness, red-facedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy; the doctor in the comparative hoarser, puffier, more red-faced, more all-fourey, tobaccoer, dirtier, and brandier. 'Childbed? said the doctor.

Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit