Meanings of vapourish in English

If he do marry, he doubts he shall have a vapourish wife.

The conception is generally vague, vapourish, and metaphysical.

A man had better be plagued with all the curses of Egypt than with a vapourish wife.

I feel sad at times, and vapourish.

In it I acquainted her with the house I was about taking; and with Mrs. Fretchville's vapourish delays.

Now this letter gives the servant the small-pox: and she has given it to her unhappy vapourish lady.

He even launched into an ethnographic digression: the German was vapourish, the French woman licentious, the Italian passionate.

Sir Willoughby dispersed her vapourish confusion.

She was a wishy-washy person, sentimental, vapourish, altogether feeble, and she intensely admired Ida Palliser's vigorous young beauty.

But a man cannot be ill, or vapourish, but thou liftest up thy shriek-owl note, and killest him immediately.

A man who wills fiercely to win the heart of a weak and vapourish woman MUST succeed, if he have opportunity enough.

Post-card pictures had given them no idea of the energy of her large gesture, or how her heaviness becomes light among the vapourish elements.

'Yes, yes; but George Sand was such a peremptory fellow, and Musset such a vapourish young person.

If he do marry, he doubts he shall have a vapourish wife.

The conception is generally vague, vapourish, and metaphysical.

A man had better be plagued with all the curses of Egypt than with a vapourish wife.