🤢 Covered with vomit 🤮 Feeling sick

barfy

1 8.9

Feeling like you will throw up or making someone feel like that

adjective
/ˈbɑrfi/

Informal

: mareado

The strong smell from the dumpster made me feel barfy as I walked by.

Examples

She had a barfy feeling in her stomach after the roller coaster ride.
Whew, still kind of barfy.

Wynken, Blynken & Nod (1938)
After eating that spoiled food, I felt really barfy for the rest of the day.

Synonyms

sick

vsbarfy

579 1.0

Feeling like you might throw up

adds that it can describe things that cause a nausea feeling

nauseous

vsbarfy

66 4.4

Feeling like you will be sick

is wider, also used for things that cause that bodily feeling

queasy

vsbarfy

30 4.1

Feeling sick and likely to throw up

is broader by also meaning to make someone feel nauseous

nauseated

vsbarfy

10 4.5

Feeling sick and likely to vomit

is broader and also covers causing a nauseous feeling in others

vomitous

vsbarfy

1 8.7

Very disgusting and likely to make someone want to throw up

is more about the bodily feeling itself rather than strong disgust

bilious

vsbarfy

Specialized

1 9.3

Feeling sick in the stomach and looking pale

is specifically about the sensation of wanting to vomit or causing it

sickish

vsbarfy

1 6.7

Slightly ill in the stomach and likely to throw up

is stronger and can mean causing clearer nausea or vomiting feelings

vomity

vsbarfy

8.8

Feeling like you are about to throw up

is the general term that can also mean causing nausea

qualmish

vsbarfy

9.9

Feeling slightly sick or disgusted after seeing something unpleasant

focuses more on pure nausea or causing a vomiting feeling

Antonyms

comfortable

494 1.0

Not feeling pain or physical discomfort

satisfying

1 2.2

A pleasant feeling of being happy when a need or wish is met

How Nauseous

barfy

Informal

1 8.9

nauseous

66 4.4

queasy

30 4.1

uneasy

98 3.2

Surface Forms

barfy positive

Morphology

barfy = barf (transparent) = barf + y

The adjective is straightforwardly formed from the colloquial verb/noun 'barf' + the productive adjectival suffix '-y', giving the expected meaning 'feeling nauseous or causing nausea'.

Etymology

Barfy comes from the slang barf meaning 'to vomit' with the ending -y that turns it into a feeling; a helpful way to remember it is to think 'barf' plus 'y' = 'feeling like you want to vomit', so barfy means 'feeling sick' or 'nauseous'.