megrim

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːɡɹɪm/

Borrowed from Middle French migraigne, semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin hēmicrānia (“pain in one half of the head”), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrānía), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-, half”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “skull”) (whence also English cranium).[1] Doublet of migraine and hemicrania.

megrim (plural megrims)

1. (now rare) A headache; a migraine. [from 15th c.]
2. (now rare) A fancy, a whim, a caprice. [from 16th c.]
3. (in the plural) See megrims (“depression; any of various diseases of animals”).
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:megrim.

• hemicrania
• migraine

Unknown.

megrim (plural megrims)

1. A type of flatfish of the genus Lepidorhombus native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean; specifically, the Cornish sole, sail-fluke, or whiff (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis).

• four-spot megrim (Lepidorhombus boscii)

• gimmer