cropsick
adjEtymology From crop (“stomach”) + sick.
1
Obsolete Sick in the stomach, especially from excess in eating or drinking.
- 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:
- crop-sick drunkards1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, translated by Nahum Tate, Satire XV:
- Related terms
- cropsickness