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Queasy

//ˈkwiː.zi// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.

    "She was in the middle of a gigantic breakfast of coffee and piles of toast, eggs and bacon and a tall glass of milk. It made him queasy to see all that food."

  2. 2
    Easily troubled; squeamish.
Adjective
  1. 1
    causing or fraught with or showing anxiety wordnet
  2. 2
    feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit wordnet
  3. 3
    causing or able to cause nausea wordnet

Etymology

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”).

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