sickish

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sick·ish

(sĭk′ĭsh)

adj.

1. Somewhat sick.

2. Somewhat nauseated.

3. Somewhat revolting or nauseating.

sick′ish·ly adv.

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sick•ish

(ˈsɪk ɪʃ)

adj.

1. somewhat sick or ill.

2. somewhat sickening or nauseating.

[1575–85]

sick′ish•ly, adv.

sick′ish•ness, n.

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Adj.

sickish - feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick

ill, sick - affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

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The Boots pointed out the door to me, and was about to go downstairs again when I saw something that made me feel sickish, in spite of my twenty years' experience.

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I lay down on the couch in the great cabin to sleep, and slept about three hours, and awaked a little refreshed, having taken a glass of wine when I lay down; after being about three hours awake, it being about five o'clock in the morning, I found myself empty, and my stomach sickish, and lay down again, but could not sleep at all, being very faint and ill; and thus I continued all the second day with a strange variety-- first hungry, then sick again, with retchings to vomit.

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We were still sickish last weekend, but we made it a point to catch Boots Anson Roa Rodrigo's 70th birthday basha landmark celebration in any senior's continuing chronology.