crop-sickadj.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
Disordered in stomach, esp. as a result of excess in eating and drinking. Often figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [adjective] > suffering from surfeit
crapulental1620
crop-sicka1625
crapulent1656
crapulous1755
a1625 J. Boys Wks. (1629) 400 People, who being Crop-sicke, doe not hunger after the righteousnesse of Gods kingdome.
1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iii. ii My merit doth begin to be crop-sick For want of other titles.
1703 W. Oliver in Philos. Trans. 1702–03 (Royal Soc.) 23 1408 A Prussian Boor; who being Crop-sick..thrust the Haft of his Knife down his Throat.
1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VI. lxxiii. 315 A man in ill health, and cropsick.
1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 58 369 In his appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober, Philip cannot, crop-sick, but nauseate the thought.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Crop-sick, disordered in the stomach.
Derivatives
ˈcrop-sickness n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > nausea
wlatingc725
unlusteOE
abominationa1398
flatingnessa1398
indignation1398
wambling1398
wlatness1398
nausea?a1425
walmingc1440
loathsomeness1536
qualming1565
subversion of the stomach1569
queasiness1576
pukishness1581
squeamishnessa1586
distaste1598
nausiness1598
wamble1603
sickness1604
distasting1605
distasture1611
nauseation1628
nauseousness1628
qualmishness1643
nauseating1651
crop-sickness1654
squeasinessa1660
mawkishness1670
qualminess1778
wambliness1900
icky1969
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 126 One that scarce knew any but Crop-sicknesse.
1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings I. iii. ii. 241 As soon as they were recovered of their own crop~sickness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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