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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Experiencing nausea; nauseated.
  2. adj. Easily nauseated.
  3. adj. Causing nausea; sickening: the queasy lurch of an airplane during a storm.
  4. adj. Causing uneasiness.
  5. adj. Uneasy; troubled.
  6. adj. Easily troubled.
  7. adj. Ill at ease; squeamish: "He is not queasy about depicting mass violence, in some circumstances, as a legitimate instrument of social transformation” ( Shaul Bakhash).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Affected with nausea; inclined to vomit.
  2. Fastidious; squeamish; delicate.
  3. Apt to cause nausea; occasioning uncomfortable feelings; hence, requiring to be delicately handled; ticklish; nice.
  4. Short; brief.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach
  2. adj. easily troubled; squeamish

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.
  2. adj. Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. causing or able to cause nausea
  2. adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
  3. adj. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English coysy, possibly from Old Norse kveisa ("boil") ( > Norwegian kveise/kvise), perhaps influenced by Anglo-Norman queisier, from Old French coisier ("to wound, hurt, make uneasy"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English coisy, perhaps of Scandinavian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • reesetee You mean like queasy descriptions of luncheon meats? Jan 11, 2008

  • chained_bear Okay, I think WeirdNet is just completely bonkers on this one. I have never heard "queasy" used to describe something that makes a person nauseated. Jan 11, 2008

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