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Meaning of QUEASY

Pronunciation:  'kweezee

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
 
 Synonyms: ill, nauseated, sick, sickish
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.

 
Computing Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

An early system on the ibm 701.

[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].

 

 

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