cropsick

English

Etymology

From crop (“stomach”) +‎ sick.

Adjective

cropsick (comparative more cropsick, superlative most cropsick)

1. (obsolete) Sick in the stomach, especially from excess in eating or drinking.
   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CDX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson;  […], →OCLC:

     By my soul, Jack, if I had not been taken thus egregiously cropsick, I would have been up with thee, and the lady too, before now.

   • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, translated by Nahum Tate, Satire XV:

     crop-sick drunkards

Related terms

• cropsickness