Definitions
causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
Word origin
From Middle English coysy, possibly from Old Norse kveisa (“boil”) ( > Norwegian kveise/kvise), perhaps influenced by Anglo-Norman queisier, from Old French coisier (“to wound, hurt, make uneasy”).
Used in a sentence
“She was in the middle of a gigantic breakfast of coffee and piles of toast, eggs and bacon and a tall glass of milk. It made him queasy to see all that food.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Nauseated”6 letters
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