acheyness

From achey +‎ -ness.

acheyness (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of achiness.
   • 1907, Winifred [Lewellin] James, chapter XXXIV, in Bachelor Betty, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company […], →OCLC, page 190:

     He took one out, lighted it, then went over and opened the piano. / “Play to me while I smoke,” he said coaxingly. “You know how I like it.” / I sat down and played till all the anger and badness and acheyness had run out the ends of my fingers.

   • 1982, Frank Freudberg, “A Second Look at the Immune System”, in Herpes: A Complete Guide to Relief & Reassurance, Philadelphia, Pa.: Running Press, →ISBN, part 4 (Fighting Back), page 118:

     And indeed, many vaccinated people do experience a “reaction,” with slight fever, lassitude, and acheyness—the symptoms of a very low-grade viral infection.

   • 1999, Kaethe Weingarten, Unreliable Bodies and The Politics of Hope; quoted in Kaethe Weingarten, “Making sense of illness narratives: Braiding theory, practice and the embodied life”, in Working with the Stories of Women’s Lives, Adelaide, S.A.: Dulwich Centre Publications, 2001, →ISBN, page 119:

     I have a body to monitor and at the first sign of waywardness or lumpiness or acheyness I am to report it.