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cropsick

cropsick adjective: sick in the stomach, especially from excess in eating or drinking.

Adjective

cropsick (comparative more cropsick, superlative most cropsick)

  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, […]...
    • crop-sick drunkards1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, translated by Nahum Tate, Satire XV

Forms of cropsick

comparativemore cropsick
superlativemost cropsick

Origin of cropsick

From crop (“stomach”) + sick.

Questions about cropsick

What does cropsick mean?
Cropsick means sick in the stomach, especially from excess in eating or drinking.
What part of speech is cropsick?
Cropsick is an adjective.

Words near cropsick in the dictionary

  1. Cropredy
  2. cropropamide
  3. crops
  4. crops out
  5. crops up
  6. cropsick
  7. cropsickness
  8. cropt
  9. croptop
  10. croptops
  11. croquante

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