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queasy, a.|ˈkwiːzɪ|
Forms: 5–6 coisy, coysy; 5 qweysye, 5–6 queysy, (6 -se, -sie), 6 quaisie, -sy, 6–7 queisie; 5–6 quasy, (6 -ie, -ye); 5 qwesye, 6 quesie, -y(e, 6–7 queasie, (6 -ye), queazie, 7– queasy, 6–7, 20- queazy.
[Of obscure history.
The early forms coisy and queisy prob. indicate a F. origin, and connexion with OF. coisier to hurt, wound (Godef.), seems possible, if the original sense was ‘wounded’, ‘bruised’ and hence ‘tender’, ‘uneasy’, but of this there is no clear evidence. A similar development of sense is implied in the usual etym. from ON. kveisa boil (see cweise), whence perh. Icel. kveistinn tender, touchy, but there is little evidence for this as an Eng. word, and the form coisy would remain unexplained. The change from queisy or quaisy to queasy is parallel to quail: queal and quair: quear, quire.]
†1.
a. Of the times or state of affairs: Unsettled, troublous, ticklish. Obs. (Cf. also 5 b.)
1459Paston Lett. I. 497 Be my feyth, here is a coysy werd. 1471Sir J. Paston ibid. III. 4 The worlde I ensur yow is ryght qwesye. c1563Jack Juggler I. 66 The time is so quesie That he that speaketh best, is lest thanke worthie. 1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 136/2 So manie of hir maiesties priuie councell, as could in that quesie time be assembled. 1611Speed Hist. Gr. Brit. ix. xx. §47. 965 The times being queasie, the King wisely forbare to take any seuere reuenge. 1906C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. VI. 64 Proud queazy, faltering-kneed, Men, fat of the lean people's gifts. 1912Galsworthy Inn of Tranquility 187, I would think, Sirs, that you should rather blame the queazy state of Pranza's stomach.
†b. Of a matter: Uncertain, hazardous. Obs.
1589Cooper Admon. 203, I must..protest it is a queisie & dangerous matter. 1605Shakes. Lear ii. i. 19, I haue one thing of a queazie question Which I must act.
2. a. Of articles of diet: Unsettling the stomach or health; causing sickness or nausea. Now rare.
1496Fysshynge w. Angle (1883) 24 The barbyll..is a quasy meete & a peryllous for mannys body. 15..Piers of Fullham 19 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 3 Kodlynges, konger, or suche queyse [v.r. coisy] fysche. 1544T. Phaer Pestilence (1553) N viij b, In this disease ye maye eate no queasie meates, as eles, gese, duckes. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 44 To the stomacke sated with dainties, all delicates seeme queasie. 1653Manton Exp. James i. 21 Like a hot morsel or queasy bit, it was soon given up again. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 225 Their flesh is queasy, corruptible, and aguish. 1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career I. xiv. 210 The..queasy brew..which she calls by the innocent name of tea.
†b. Of seasons: Unhealthy; in which sickness is prevalent. Also of days of ill-health. Obs.
1510–20Compl. them that ben to late maryed (Collier 1862) 16, I haue passed full many quasy dayes. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 732 Infection taken in the campe in strange aire, and a most queasie time of the yeare.
†c. Of land: Unfavourable to growth. Obs. rare.
1599[see queachy 2]. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. xiv. 80 It was great Lands..full of your soft Rushes..and lay very wet..it was so Weake and Barren, so cold and queasy. [Cf. ibid. xxiv. 149 The coldest and most quealiest (? misprint) parts of thy Lands.]
3. a. Of the stomach: Easily upset; unable to digest strong food; inclined to sickness or nausea. (In 16–17th c. freq. fig. and in fig. context.) Hence of the body, heart, health, etc.
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde fol. 142 She shall better digest and lyke her meate; her stomacke nothyng so quesy ne feable. 1574Newton Health Mag. 26 It is better for..stronge Stomackes then for Quasie and weake bodies. 1604Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 46 Ile gird it close, As if my health were queazy. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. ix. 468 A divine philosophy; which..as men grew worse, their queasy stomachs began to loathe it. a1684Leighton Wks. (1830) I. 42 A full table, but a sickly body and queasy stomach. 1839J. Fume ‘Paper on Tobacco’ 70 Not digested without grumbling by certain queasy stomachs. 1889C. Keene Let. in Life xiii. (1892) 409 My stomach is in such a queasy state, that a gram in excess puts me all wrong.
†b. transf. Of the mind, feelings, etc.: Delicate, fastidious, nice. Obs.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. i. (Arb.) 40 These Instrumentes make a mannes wit..so tender and quaisie that they be lesse able to brooke strong and tough studie. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon x. 130 Eyes are dissemblers, and fancy is but queasy. 1642Rogers Naaman 565 Beware then of a sullen, queazy, coy and proud heart. 1659R. Eedes Wisdom's Justif. 40 The queasie soul that receives not the Word.
c. Of conscience, etc.: Tender, scrupulous.
1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 76 The thinges themselves..ar not so offensive to quesy consciences. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 374 The ambition of Boniface made no scruple thereof; nor of more queasie resolutions have been their Successors ever since. 1781Cowper Charity 447 When queasy conscience has its qualms. 1886Symonds Renaiss. It., Cath. React. (1898) I. iv. 223 Ignatius recommended fishers of souls to humour queasy consciences.
4. Of pains, etc.: Of the nature of sickness; uneasy, uncomfortable.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet (1844) 13 O what queasie girds were they towards the fall of the leafe. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 158 To return by Art their queasie paine upon women, to the great reproach of Nature. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 114, I had a queasy sense that I wore my last dry clothes upon my body.
5. a. Of persons: Having a queasy stomach; liable to turn sick; subject to, or affected with, nausea. Also fig.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. vi. 20 [The Romans] queazie with his insolence already, Will their good thoughts call from him. 1622Fletcher Span. Cur. iii. ii, Your queazie young wiues That perish undelivered, I am vext with. 1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin. i. Argt., Thus Queasie Madams meat forbear Untill they read, The Bill of Fare. 1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall vii, The Reverend Doctor Gaster found himself rather queasy in the morning. 1855Browning Grammarian's Funeral 64 Even to the crumbs I'd fain eat up the feast, Ay, nor feel queasy.
b. transf. (with earlier quots. cf. sense 1).
1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 73 Over-stale for so queynte and queasye a worlde. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. ii. Wks. 1856 I. 22 O that the stomack of this queasie age Digestes, or brookes such raw unseasoned gobs. 1641S. Marshall Fast Serm. bef. Ho. Comm. Ep. Ded. 3 A time so queasie and distempered as can hardly beare that Food or Physicke which is needfull. 1869Browning Ring & Bk. x. 113 The queasy river could not hold Its swallowed Jonas, but discharged the meal.
6. Comb. queasy-stomached a. (see sense 3).
1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 757 Antonius..being queasie stomacked with his Surfeit. 1608R. Armin Nest Ninn. (1842) 6 The World, queasie stomackt as one fed with the earth's nectar, and delicates. 1635Quarles Embl. iii. xiv. (1718) 181 Look, sister, how the queazy-stomach'd graves Vomit their dead. 1802W. Gifford tr. Juvenal's Satires vi. 292 Why waste the wine and cakes The queasy-stomach'd guest, at parting, takes? queat |