queasy

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Many people who experience it are left feeling queasy, and a few even get ill.

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  1. adjective Experiencing nausea; nauseated.
  2. adjective Easily nauseated.
  3. adjective Causing nausea; sickening: the queasy lurch of an airplane during a storm.
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  • If any of you have sensitive stomachs or are feeling queasy, now is the time to check your Blackberry. —  Tom Rielly delivers a comic send-up of TED2006
  • Laurey looked at him as if she felt suddenly queasy, then as if she understood too well the reason he wore the jacket of his sister's killer. —  Chapter1
  • Her stomach turned queasy, and she suddenly felt threatened. —  Garwood, Julie - The Prize
  • It was not a pleasant feeling; it was more like a queasy, vague sickness. —  THE LIGHTKEEPER
  • "I feel queasy--I need some air No wonder," she said, standing up readily. —  AHMM,May2006
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  1. Middle English coisy, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. Early modern English and dial. also quaisy; from Middle English quaysy, queysy, causing a feeling of nausea; prob. from Norwegian kveis, sickness after a debauch, = Icelandic kveisa, in comp. idhrakveisa, colic, = Swedish dial. kvesa, soreness, blister, pimple; perhaps akin to Swedish qväsa, bruise, wound, squash, Danish kvase, squash, crush. Cf. Anglo-Saxon tōcwīsan, crush: see squeeze.
 

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