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Definition of Qualmish
1. a. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.
Definition of Qualmish
1. Adjective. Affected with qualms. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Qualmish
1. having qualms [adj]
Medical Definition of Qualmish
1. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit. Qualm"ishly, Qualm"ishness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Qualmish
Literary usage of Qualmish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"The general, in the next paragraph of his instructions, gives a kind of triumph
over his qualmish apprehensions, and putting on the soldier, assures Colonel ..."
2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"The general, in the next paragraph of his instructions, gives a kind of triumph
over his qualmish apprehensions, and putting on the soldier, assures Colonel ..."
3. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"ick, ill; qualmish, sickly ; ll.rrr/r. 1. ill, badly, &c.; 2. wrongly, amiss; —
fein, — werten, impers, (with Dai.) to feel or grow sick; ei ¡ft mit —, I am ..."
4. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"«ick, ill ; qualmish, sickly ; П. adv. ... to feel or grow sick; tí ift mir —,
1 am ill, not well, indisposed; I аш qualmish; tf »Urte mir —, I felt sick; ..."
5. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"with qualmish ; but qualm is from a totally (afferent source; see Quell.
__ swindler, a cheat. (G.) XVIII cent. ..."
6. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... the " meal above the malt," our voices one by one died away; our superb cavalier
looked a little qualmish; G.'s gentle current ebbed; L. laid her head ..."
7. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"But, by degrees, our mortality got uppermost, the " meal above the malt," our
voices one by one died away; our superb cavalier looked a little qualmish; ..."
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