a. dial. [f. LUNGE sb.2 or v.1 + -OUS.] † a. Of a fall: Heavy (obs.). b. Of persons: Rough-mannered, violent (in play).

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1681.  Cotton, Wond. Peak (1741), 339. A lungeous Fall indeed, the Master said.

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1787.  Grose, Prov. Gloss., Lungeous, spiteful, mischievous. Derb. & Leic.

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1817.  Wilbraham, Gloss. Cheshire (1818), Lungeous, ill tempered, disposed to do some bodily harm by a blow or otherwise.

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1866.  Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, xxviii. A big lungeous fellow, who would speak disrespectfully of anybody.

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1883.  B’ham Daily Mail, 3 April, 2/3. The rules of Rugby football allow … a cruel latitude to lungeous players.

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