indigestion

What it means

1. uncountableusuallymedicineA condition of heartburn, nausea, or other stomach-related pain, sometimes caused by eating too quickly.

   If you also knew how to combine foods—that is, what foods eaten together “set well,” you need never have indigestion, constipation or any of the headachy, stomachachy ills they lead to.

   1917 February 12, “If You Knew What Foods?” (advertisement), in The Independent, volume 59, number 3558, New York: Independent Corporation, page 280

In a sentence

If you also knew how to combine foods—that is, what foods eaten together “set well,” you need never have indigestion, constipation or any of the headachy, stomachachy ills they lead to.

1917 February 12, “If You Knew What Foods?” (advertisement), in The Independent, volume 59, number 3558, New York: Independent Corporation, page 280

Where it comes from

1. Late Latinindigestio
2. Old Frenchindigestion
3. Middle Englishindigestioun
4. Englishindigestion

From Middle English indigestioun, from Old French indigestion, from Late Latin indigestio, by surface analysis, in- + digestion.