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Qualmish

Qualmish \Qualm"ish\, a. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.
--Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Qualm"ish*ly, adv. -- Qualm"ish*ness, n.

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qualmish

a. Affected with qualms; queasy, nauseous. (from 16th c.)

Usage examples of "qualmish".

I felt myself growing pale and qualmish, but grieved in silence and said nothing.

She was uncannily serene, and that chilled his anger to a qualmish dissatisfaction.

The princess chided herself for being so qualmish, decay was as much a part of the life circle as growth, and it was an affront to the All Mother to treat it with aversion.

If you had been fighting the ague and gripes for the last tenday, you might feel a little qualmish, too.

Several dozen wounded dragoneers lay in a groaning row along the back wall, attended by two grim-faced clerics and a dozen qualmish women.

Dim as it was, it seemed to shift, wavering in a disturbingly qualmish fashion, and he shut his eyes, concentrating grimly on what he might do to Richard Brown, and he got the man alone someday.

I am then well shaken up for two or three hours in the Irish mail, and after crawling along a slow by-line for two or three hours more, am at length, at 6:55, landed, battered, tired, dust-blacked and qualmish, at the little roadside station of Caulfield.

For a sick qualmish stomach either preparation is an excellent remedy, as the virtue of the bark rests in this essential volatile oil.

Eleanor was a bit qualmish, for the servants had been on constant duty.