Definition of Cropsick

1. a. Sick from excess in eating or drinking.

Definition of Cropsick

1. Adjective. (obsolete) Sick from excess in eating or drinking. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cropsick

1. sick from overeating [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cropsick

croplands
cropless
croplike
croppable
cropped
cropped up
cropper
croppers
croppies
cropping
cropping up
croppy
crops
crops up
cropsick (current term)
croque-madame
croque-monsieur
croquembouche
croquembouches
croquet
croquet ball
croquet equipment
croquet mallet
croqueta
croquetas
croqueted
croqueting
croquetlike
croquets

Literary usage of Cropsick

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1859)
"Cf. in Ger. stocken, to grow fusty, and in Ital. stucco, surfeited, cropsick. The exact nature of the contrat ..."

2. A critical pronouncing dictionary and expositor of the English language by John Walker (1797)
"... krop'fi'la cropsick,-krop'sik. a. Satiated with a full belly. Sick with excels and debauchery. CROP, k!(4>pf. any thing cut off. ..."

3. Curran and His Contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1862)
"Downcast, and surfeited with freaks, The cropsick Thund'rer upward sneaks, More like a loser than a winner, And almost like an earthly sinner: Half quenched ..."

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