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QUALMISH

Definition: QUALMISH

QUALMISH

Adjective

1. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "QUALMISH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)


Modern Translation: QUALMISH

Language Translations for "QUALMISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

që i vjen për të vjellë (sick). (various references)

   

German

  

unwohl (indisposed, off color, qualmishly, queasy, queer, uneasy, unhappy, unwell). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έχων τύψεισ, ναυτιών (queasy, seasick, sickish). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szorongó (thronging), nyugtalan (antsy, apprehensive, concerned, disconcerted, disquiet, fidgety, fussed, hectic, jittery, pained, restive, restless, ruffled, skittish, to be all of a sweat, to be flurried, to be in a sweat, uneasy, worried), lelkiismeretfurdalástól gyötört, lelkiismeretű, émelygő (queasy). (various references)

   

Manx

  

taauagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

almishquay

   

Portuguese

  

inquieto (agitated, anxious, bustling, disquiet, fidgety, frantic, fretful, fussy, nervous, on edge, preoccupied, restive, restless, troubled, uneasy, unquiet), enjoado (airsick, bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, nauseated, queasy, seasick, squeamish), apreensivo (apprehensive, nervous, preoccupied, solicitous, uneasy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

scrupulos (careful, conscientious, finical, nice, particular, punctilious, queasy, religious, scrupulous, scrupulously, thorough), mofturos (dainty, demure, fastidious, finical, finicking, fractious, Froward, humoursome, naughty, nice, particular, peevish, perverse, picky, squeamish), greu de mulţumit (captious, difficult, fastidious, nice, particular, pernickety, squeamish), dificil (abstract, awkward, captious, choosy, cross-grained, dainty, delicate, difficult, fastidious, finical, hard, ill, intractable, involved, nice, parlous, scabrous, spiny, stiff, tender, thorny, ticklish, tough, troublesome, unyielding). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

испытывающий дурноту. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

preocupado (concerned, disquiet, faraway, preoccupied, solicitous, troubled, worried), nauseante, escrupuloso (accurate, compunctious, delicate, queasy, scrupulous, tender). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

vicdanen rahatsız, vicdanına kulak veren, tiksindirici (abominable, cloying, detestable, disgusting, fulsome, loathsome, mawkish, odious, putrid, sickening, squirmy), midesi bulanmış (queasy, sick), mide bulandırıcı (fulsome, nauseous, noisome, queasy, sick, sickening, sickly). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

що відчува" нудоту, нудотний (emetic, luscious, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, routine, sickish, sickly, treacly), неспокійний (anxious, bothersome, choppy, disquiet, incommodious, nervous, obstreperous, old womanish, restive, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, vexatious, worrisome). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nôn nao cảm thấy lo ngại, bu"n nôn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: QUALMISH

Derivations

Words beginning with "QUALMISH": qualmishly, qualmishness, qualmishnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "QUALMISH"

Words rhyming with "QUALMISH" (pronounced 'Qualm"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references)

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Anagrams: QUALMISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-i-l-m-q-s-u"

-2 letters: hamuli, haulms, maquis, miauls, mulish, quails, qualms, umiaqs.

-3 letters: alums, hails, halms, haulm, hauls, hilum, hilus, hulas, limas, mails, maqui, mauls, miaul, quail, quais, qualm, quash, quasi, salmi, shaul, umiaq.

-4 letters: ails, aims, alms, alum, amis, amus, hail, halm, hams, haul, hila, hula, hums, lams, lash, lima, lums, lush, mail, mash, maul, mils.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-i-l-m-q-s-u"
 

+2 letters: qualmishly.

 

+3 letters: squeamishly.

 

+4 letters: qualmishness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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