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adjective

Sickish adj.

Somewhat sick or diseased.

Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste.

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Etymology of 'Sickish'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sickish" Quotes from Famous Books

... nitre be given from a dram to half an ounce in a morning at repeated draughts, the patient becomes sickish, and much pale water is thrown into the bladder by the inverted action of the urinary lymphatics. Hence the absorption in ulcers is increased and the cure forwarded, as observed by ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... still a member of the family, "nonsense, Miss Nellie. I'd give a heap more for one of Miss Maude's little fingers, red and rough as they be, than I would for both them soft, sickish feeling hands of yourn;" and John hastily disappeared from the room to escape the angry words which he knew would ...

— Cousin Maude • Mary J. Holmes

... and had my lunch," narrated the watchman. "Then I settled down for a ten minutes' comfortable smoke, as I always do. I felt sort of sickish, right away. I had noticed that the coffee tasted queer, but I fancied it might have been burned. Anyhow, half an hour ago I seemed to come out of a stupor, my head fairly splitting, and my stomach burning as though I'd taken poison. I thought of poison, somehow, and ...

— Bart Stirling's Road to Success - Or; The Young Express Agent • Allen Chapman

Words linked to "Sickish" : queasy, ill, nauseous