cropsick
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From crop (“stomach”) + sick.
Adjective[edit]
cropsick (comparative more cropsick, superlative most cropsick)
- (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