Obs. Also chagreen, shaggarin. [a. F. chagrin (15th c. in Littré) f. the sb.: see prec.]
† 1. Grieved, disquieted, troubled; melancholy.
1666. Pepys, Diary, 6 Aug. My wife in a chagrin humour, she not being pleased with my kindnesse to either of them.
1678. Earl Queensbury, Lett., in M. Napier, Life Dundee, II. 58. I know he is very high, and often shaggarin, and angry.
1691. Islington-Wells, 9.
| To say they’ve Melancholly been,Is Bar’brous; no, they are Chagrin. |
1721. Ramsay, Wks. (1848), II. 312. Weak, frantic, clownish and chagreen.
1722. De Foe, Relig. Courtsh., I. ii. (1840), 38. I grew chagrin and dull.
2. Chagrined; acutely vexed, mortified.
1706. De Foe, Jure Div., VII. 149. Hell’s bauk’d; the shagrin Fiends the Conquest own.
1708. J. Downes, Hist. Rev. Eng. Stage, 29. At which the French look’d very Shaggrin.
1711. P. H., Impartial View of 2 late Parlts., 127. He is not a little chagrin about the Habeas Corpus Act being suspended.
