Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

Etymologies

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From qualm +‎ -ish.

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