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ˈsickish, a.
[f. sick a. + -ish.]
1. Somewhat ill or sick, indisposed; disordered.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxx. (1887) 110 To speake first of the weake and sickish bodie. 1601Holland Pliny II. 369 As Beares, when they feele themselues sickish or not well at ease, cure themselues with eating Pismires. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. vi. 185 Though..[it] did make her sickish, especially, when she slept upon it. 1710Swift Jrnl. to Stella 31 Oct., I had a fit of giddiness:..then it went off, leaving me sickish. 1773T. Percival Ess. II. 95 He..was chilly, sickish, and had shooting pains in the head. 1824Galt Rothelan III. 199 A sickish and peevish gentlewoman. 1882Stevenson New Arab. Nts. (1884) 32 You feel a little sickish?..take a little brandy.
fig.1586Warner Alb. Eng. v. xxvii. (1612) 132 Our heires waxe sickish of our health, too long oure heere abode.
2. Somewhat nauseating or sickening.
1727S. J. Vineyard 36 Your Grapes..must not be over Ripe, for..the Wine will be Sickish and Ropey. a1817T. Dwight Trav. New Eng. (1821) II. 450 In passing these receptacles, we were saluted by a sweet, sickish effluvium, oppressive to the lungs. 1856Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1879) II. 345 The atmosphere was a little faint and sickish.
Hence ˈsickishly adv., ˈsickishness.
1727Bailey (II), Queasiness, Sickishness at the Stomach. 1733G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. xi. §2 (1734) 228 [Not] with such frequent Vomitings, but rather a continued Sickishness. 1779Sylph II. 6, I felt a sickishness and chill all over me. 1847Webster, Sickishly, in a sickish manner. 1880Literary World (Boston, U.S.) 24 Apr. 139/1 Most writers upon him are either unpleasantly bitter or sickishly sweet. |