adj. (colloquial).—An indefinite feeling of apprehension or satisfaction. Also TO FEEL ALL OVER ALIKE, AND TOUCH NOWHERE = to feel confusedly happy. Also as subs.
1841. JOHN MILLS, The Old English Gentleman, xxiv. 186. ‘Isn’t it natural for a body to feel a sort of a queer ALL-OVERISHNESS on the eve of a wedding, I should like to know?’
1851. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, III. 52. When the mob began to gather round, I felt ALL-OVERISH.
1854. W. H. AINSWORTH, The Flitch of Bacon, II. v. I feel a sort of shivering and ALL-OVERISHNESS.
1864. C. CLARKE, A Box for the Season, II. 195. That indescribable ALL-OVERISHNESS, resulting from too much drink.
1882. Society, 11 Jan., II. 1. ‘What’s the trouble?’ asked the doctor. ‘I feel a sort of dislocated ALL-OVERISHNESS.’
