sunfever

English

Noun

sunfever (countable and uncountable, plural sunfevers)

  1. Alternative form of sun fever
    • 1881, New York Medical Abstract:
      Cerebral Pyrexia, or sunfever is the name by which I would denominate an affection nearly allied to sunstroke.
    • 1913, Pacific Rural Press - Volumes 85-86, page 44:
      The sea, beach, and its dangers...Summer—in very warm climates that of Sunstroke, or “sunfever,” is one of them.
    • 1985, Sharon Sabsay, Martha Platt, Social Setting, Stigma, and Communicative Competence, page 126:
      He's been sick a long time. He went to the hospital one time with sunfever.
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