qualmish
adjUK /ˈkwɑːmɪʃ/
Etymology From qualm + -ish.
1
Affected with qualms; queasy, nauseous.
- I am plaguy qualmiſh this morning, vve drunk ſvvingingly laſt night, vvhat did vve do? tell me the Hiſtory.1691, Tho[mas] Shadwell, The Scowrers. A Comedy, […], London: […] James Knapton, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
- I awoke rather qualmish, but, dressing and going upon deck, the sharp air recovered me.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 77
2 more examples
- Then, how comparatively sweet was everything on board - no paint, no tar, no new rope, (vilest of smells to the qualmish!) no grease, or oil, or varnish; but instead of these, bamboo and rattan, and coir rope and palm thatch; pure vegetable fibres, which smell pleasantly if they smell at all, and recall quiet scenes in the green and shady forest.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 162:
- I had sought out a dark corner, since by now I did indeed feel rather qualmish inside my yellow skin.2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 53:
- Derived terms
- qualmishly, qualmishness