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qualmish

adj
/ˈkwɑːmɪʃ/UK

Etymology

From qualm + -ish.

  1. derived from quellen — “to stream, well up”
  2. borrowed from Qualm — “steam, vapor, mist”
  3. borrowed from kwalm
  4. derived from *gʷelH-✻
  5. inherited from *kwalm✻
  6. inherited from cwealm
  7. inherited from qualm
  8. suffixed as qualmish — “qualm + ish”

Definitions

  1. Affected with qualms

    Affected with qualms; queasy, nauseous.

    • I awoke rather qualmish, but, dressing and going upon deck, the sharp air recovered me.
    • I had sought out a dark corner, since by now I did indeed feel rather qualmish inside my yellow skin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at qualmish. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at qualmish. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at qualmish

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA