Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Seasickness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Motion sickness experienced while traveling on water; seasickness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. motion sickness experienced while traveling on water
Etymologies
- French : mal, sickness + de, of + mer, sea. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The sun glare on the water made my eyes ache, while I was suffering more than half a touch of mal de mer from the antic conduct of the outrigger on the blobby sea.”
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