What does keckish mean?
Keckish means (rare) having a tendency to retch or vomit.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(rare) having a tendency to retch or vomit.
Inordinate passion of vomiting, called cholera, is nothing different from a keckish stomach and a desire to cast, but only according to augmentation.
"[…] If the queasie stomach must have the pills, they must be either guilded, that children may so please the eye as not to suspect the physicke, or sugard well, that the keckish palat may gulpe downe the cure before it feeles the sower."
He Was often confined in his bowels for which he had to take medicine; and as his stomach Was not at all keckish, antimon. tart. formed a considerable portion of his aperient.
That on his forehead might be seen — He had not else so keckish been.
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Keckish means (rare) having a tendency to retch or vomit.
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Inordinate passion of vomiting, called cholera, is nothing different from a keckish stomach and a desire to cast, but only according to augmentation.
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