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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
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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