Keckish

Quick meaning: Keckish is an adjective meaning (rare) having a tendency to retch or vomit.

Meaning

(rare) having a tendency to retch or vomit.

Example Sentences

That on his forehead might be seen — He had not else so keckish been.

Inordinate passion of vomiting, called cholera, is nothing different from a keckish stomach and a desire to cast, but only according to augmentation.

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.

"[…] 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."

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Related dictionary entries include kecklish, pukey, vomity, sicky, peckish, stomach-churning.

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