cropsick

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adjective

Sick in the stomach, especially from excess in eating or drinking.

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Meanings

adjectivecropsick (comparative more cropsick, superlative most cropsick)

comparative more cropsick · superlative most cropsick

  1. obsoleteSick in the stomach, especially from excess in eating or drinking.

    crop-sick drunkards

    1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, translated by Nahum Tate, Satire XV
    1 more example

    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.

    1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CDX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC

Origin

From crop (“stomach”) + sick.

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