Definition of "vapourish" []

• Characteristic of vapour. (adjective)

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• "Come, dear Susan, and let us make the best of this 'very penetrating world' - as a maid of my mother's used to call it in vapourish moods - come and wind me up again, as you have often done before when I was quite run down, so that, from being a mere senseless piece of lumber, I began to tick and tell people what o'clock it was."
• "A disgusting feeling of nausea, a kind of vapourish tightness behind his nose."
• "A man who wills fiercely to win the heart of a weak and vapourish woman MUST succeed, if he have opportunity enough."