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ˈcrop-sick, a. Obs. exc. dial.
[f. crop n. 1–2 + sick a.]
Disordered in stomach, esp. as a result of excess in eating and drinking. Often fig.
1624Middleton Game at Chess iii. ii, My merit doth begin to be crop-sick For want of other titles. a1625Boys Wks. (1629) 400, People, who being Crop-sicke, doe not hunger after the righteousnesse of Gods kingdome. 1703Oliver in Phil. Trans. XXIII. 1408 A Prussian Boor; who being Crop-sick..thrust the Haft of his Knife down his Throat. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VI. 350 A man in ill health, and crop-sick. 1845Blackw. Mag. LVIII. 369 In his appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober, Philip cannot, crop-sick, but nauseate the thought. 1878Cumbrld. Gloss., Crop-sick, disordered in the stomach.
Hence ˈcrop-sickness.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 126 One that scarce knew any but Crop-sicknesse. 1788V. Knox Winter Even. I. iii. ii. 241 As soon as they were recovered of their own crop⁓sickness. |