vbl. sb. Now Sc. and dial. Forms: see YEX, YESK v. [OE. ʓeocsung, ʓeoxung = OHG. gesgizunga: see YEX, YESK v. and -ING1.] The action of the vb. YEX; † sobbing (obs.); (most freq.) hiccuping.
c. 1050. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 423/12. In singultum, in sicettunge and ʓeoxunge.
c. 1050. Suppl. Æfric’s Gloss., ibid., 179/4. Singultus, ʓeocsung.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 801. Mid ȝoxinge & gret wop þus he bigan is mone.
1382. Wyclif, Lam. iii. 56. Ne turne thou awei thin ere fro my sobbing [v.r. ȝoxyng] and cries.
1387–8. T. Usk, Test. Love, I. i. (Skeat), l. 6. Any maner disese outward, in sobbing maner, showeth sorowful yexinge from within.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VII. xlvi. (1495), 9 vj b. Yoxynge is the sowne in the nose of vyolent meuynge of ye stomak.
a. 1400–50. Wars Alex., 5042. So did his princes … With ȝedire ȝoskingis & ȝerre ȝett out to grete.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), V. 389. Pereschenge moche peple in yoskenge or nesynge.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 539/1. Ȝyxynge, singultus.
a. 1470. Tiptoft, Orat. G. Flaminens (Caxton, 1481), f iv. He in his drunkenesse with his stombling yoxing & prating.
1483. Cath. Angl., 426/2. A ȝiskynge, singultus.
1510. Stanbridge, Vocabula (W. de W.), A v. Oscedo, yeskynge.
1530. Palsgr., 291/1. Yexing, hocquet.
1543. Traheron, trans. Vigo’s Chirurg., III. ix. 96 b/1. Great apostemations … whyche cause rigours, fieuers, spasmes, youxinge.
1544. Phaer, Regim. Lyfe (1545), F j. Hycket or yeaskyng, is an euyll mouyng of the vertue expulsiue of the stomake.
1562. Turner, Bathes, 9 b. It healeih also the hitchcock or yiskinge.
1569. R. Androse, trans. Alexis’ Secr., IV. I. 35. To remedie the yexings of the stomacke and vomitings.
1600. Darrell, True Narr., 6. A bygg blacke catt … threwe her backward taking from her the vse both of her eyes and handes, which with yesking were euer losed.
1613. Bp. Andrewes, 96 Serm., Eph. iv. 30 (1629), 652. The upbrayding or yexing of the heart (as Abigail excellently termeth it).
1684. Robt. Johnson, Enchir. Med., III. iv. 152. [The Hicket] is called in English a sobbing or yexing.
1887. F. T. Havergal, Heref. Wds., 38. He suffers so from yocksing.
1887. Jamieson’s Dict., Suppl., s.v. Yeterie, A yetrie yisking.
