Related Content
- Daily Word Quiz: calumny
- Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy
- Frequently Misspelled Words
- Frequently Mispronounced Words
- Easily Confused Words
- Writing & Language
Brewer's: Megrims
A corruption of the Greek hemi-crania (half the skull), through the French migraine. A neuralgic affection generally confined to one brow, or to one side of the forehead: whims, fancies.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
 Related Content
|
Trending
Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
