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cropsick en · ADJ

Etymology

From crop (“stomach”) + sick.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Sick in the stomach, especially from excess in eating or drinking.
   • By my soul, Jack, if I had not been taken thus egregiously cropsick, I would have been up with thee, and the lady too, before now. 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CDX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:
   • crop-sick drunkards 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, translated by Nahum Tate, Satire XV:

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cropsickness