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queasy adjective [ ˈkwiːzi ]

• nauseous; feeling sick.
• "in the morning he was still pale and queasy"
Similar: nauseous, nauseated, bilious, sick, seasick, carsick, trainsick, airsick, travel-sick, suffering from motion sickness, ill, unwell, poorly, bad, out of sorts, dizzy, peaky, liverish, green around the gills, off, off colour, sick to one's stomach, funny, peculiar, rough, lousy, rotten, awful, terrible, dreadful, crummy, crook, peakish, crappy,
Origin: late Middle English queisy, coisy ‘causing nausea’, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to Old French coisier ‘to hurt’.


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