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queasy

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Queasy  \Quea"sy\,  a.  [Icel.  kweisa  pain;  cf  Norw.  kveis 
  sickness  after  a  debauch.] 
  1.  Sick  at  the  stomach;  affected  with  nausea;  inclined  to 
  vomit;  qualmish. 
 
  2.  Fastidious;  squeamish;  delicate;  easily  disturbed; 
  unsettled;  ticklish.  ``  A  queasy  question.''  --Shak. 
 
  Some  seek,  when  queasy  conscience  has  its  qualms. 
  --Cowper. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  queasy 
  adj  :  feeling  nausea;  feeling  about  to  vomit  [syn:  {nauseated},  {sick}, 
  {sickish}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  QUEASY 
 
  An  early  system  on  the  {IBM  701}. 
 
  [Listed  in  CACM  2(5):16  (May  1959)]. 
 
  (1995-01-25)




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