queasy
adj/ˈkwiː.zi/
Etymology 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”).
1
Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.
- 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.1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 75:
2
Easily troubled; squeamish.
- Derived terms
- queasily, queasiness, queazen