a. Also 6 quamie. [f. QUALM sb.3 + -Y.] = QUALMISH.
1562. Leigh, Armorie (1597), 129. Neyther abounding in hote desire, neither oppressed with quamie colde.
1600. S. Nicholson, Acolastus (1876), 38. Astonisht in a qualmy traunce.
1846. Landor, Exam. Shaks., Wks. II. 274. I myself did feel queerish and qualmy.
1884. Miss Dillwyn, Jill, II. xi. 178. The mere smell of it makes one feel qualmy.
Hence Qualmyish a., somewhat qualmy.
1831. Blackw. Mag., XXX. 975. With a queerish and qualmyish feeling.
