queasy

• queazy

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwiː.zi/

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• Rhymes: -iːzi

queasy (comparative queasier, superlative queasiest)

1. Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.
   • 1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 75:

     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. Easily troubled; squeamish.

• queasily
• queasiness

• nauseous
• nauseated

• Quayes