† squeasyadj.
Obsolete.
1. Of times: Troublous; disturbed.
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1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Dij v But now we are come to the last age, which as Ouid deuids it, is ye 4, and the woorst, squeasye & dogged, & wrought of hard iron.
a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 256 None of them in those squeasie and unsettled times being questioned for it.
2. figurative.1620 J. Mason Briefe Disc. New-found-land 5 Peraduenture some squeasie stomake will say, Fishing is a beastly trade and unseeming a Gentleman.1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. ix. 11 It proves hard of digestion to the squeasie stomacks of modern weak-wits.in combination.1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick xiv. i. 372 These Patients are commonly squeazy stomached.
a. Of the stomach: Readily nauseated, easily upset; = squeamish adj. 1b.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected by nausea > of stomach
squeamous1398
queasy1545
wambling1566
qualming1576
squeasy1596
1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie N iiij He driues him to be dainty of his meats, telling him his stomack is squeasie.
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 21 I use to have a squeazie stomacke on salt Water.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 299 My weak and squeazie stomack will hardly digest the wing of a small rabbet or chicken.
b. Readily unsettled or disturbed.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]
slidinga900
wankleeOE
windyc1000
unsteadfastc1200
fleeting?c1225
loose?c1225
brotelc1315
unstablec1340
varyingc1340
variantc1374
motleyc1380
ungroundedc1380
muablea1393
passiblea1393
remuablea1393
changeablea1398
movablea1398
variablec1397
slidderya1400
ticklec1400
variantc1412
flitting1413
mutable?a1425
movingc1425
flaskisable1430
flickering1430
transmutablec1430
vertible1447
brittlea1450
ficklea1450
permutablec1450
unfirmc1450
uncertain1477
turnable1483
unsteadfast1483
vagrantc1522
inconstant1526
alterable?1531
stirringc1540
slippery1548
various1552
slid?1553
mutala1561
rolling1561
weathery1563
unconstant1568
interchangeable1574
fluctuant1575
stayless1575
transitive1575
voluble1575
changeling1577
queasy1579
desultory1581
huff-puff1582
unstaid1586
vagrant1586
changeful1590
floating1594
Protean1594
unstayed1594
swimming1596
anchorless1597
mobilec1600
ticklish1601
catching1603
labile1603
unrooted1604
quicksilvered1605
versatile1605
insubstantial1607
uncertain1609
brandling1611
rootless1611
squeasy1611
wind-changinga1616
insolid1618
ambulatory1625
versatilous1629
plastic1633
desultorious1637
unbottomed1641
fluid1642
fluent1648
yea-and-nay1648
versipellous1650
flexile1651
uncentred1652
variating1653
chequered1656
slideable1662
transchangeative1662
weathercock-like1663
flicketing1674
fluxa1677
lapsable1678
wanton1681
veering1684
upon the weathercock1702
contingent1703
unsettled?1726
fermentable1731
afloat1757
brickle1768
wavy1795
vagarious1798
unsettled1803
fitful1810
metamorphosical1811
undulating1815
tittupya1817
titubant1817
mutative1818
papier mâché1818
teetotum1819
vacillating1822
capricious1823
sensitive1828
quicksilvery1829
unengrafted1829
fluxionala1834
proteiform1833
liquid1835
tottlish1835
kaleidoscopic1846
versative1846
kaleidoscopical1858
tottery1861
choppy1865
variative1874
variational1879
wimbly-wambly1881
fluctuable1882
shifty1882
giveable1884
shifty1884
tippy1886
mutatory1890
upsettable1890
rocky1897
undulatory1897
streaky1898
tottly1905
tipply1906
up and down1907
inertialess1927
sometimey1946
rise-and-fall1950
switchable1961
1611 in T. Coryate Crudities sig. c4v The squeazie humour of his braine Before he parted from this maine, Neare perished his skull.
3. Sparing of something.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > [adjective]
sparingc1386
savingc1440
husbandlya1450
husbandlike1542
spareful1565
chary1570
dainty1576
partial1576
spare1577
parsimonious?1591
spary1601
scant1603
wary1605
frugala1616
spare-handed1626
squeasy1628
canny1725
scrimp1728
scrimping1823
sparesome1864
stinting1867
hard-arsed1893
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxxvi. sig. G4v Hee is as squeazy of his commendations as his courtesie.
Derivatives
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the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [noun]
irksomeness1435
tediousness1482
fie?1550
heart-scald1628
disgustion1659
squeasinessa1660
sickness1779
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
a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) viii. 129 A squeasiness and rising up of the heart against any mean..condition of men.
1687 Marquis of Halifax Let. to Dissenter 6 After the squeaziness of starting at a Surplice, you must be forced to swallow Transubstantiation.
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