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Webster 1913 Edition


Qualmish

Qualm′ish

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Adj.
Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.
Shak.
Qualm′ish-ly
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adv.
Qualm′ish-ness
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Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Qualmish

QU'ALMISH

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Adj.
quamish. [supra.] Sick at the stomach; inclined to vomit; affected with nausea or sicklylanguor.

Definition 2024


qualmish

qualmish

English

Adjective

qualmish

  1. Affected with qualms; queasy, nauseous. [from 16th c.]
    • 2001, Anthea Bell, translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz, Penguin 2011, p. 53:
      I had sought out a dark corner, since by now I did indeed feel rather qualmish inside my yellow skin.

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