to feel gyppy

9.9

Have a sick feeling in the stomach and want to throw up

phrasal verb

Slang

: sentirse mareado

Whenever I feel gyppy, I drink ginger tea to settle my stomach.

Examples

After the roller coaster, she felt gyppy.
I've been feeling gyppy all day after that seafood lunch.
She warned him not to go swimming if he started to feel gyppy.
I feel gyppy after that meal.
After eating that greasy burger, I started feeling gyppy and needed some fresh air.
He always feels gyppy when he rides the bus after eating.
Whenever I feel gyppy, a bit of fresh air helps relieve my stomach discomfort.

Synonyms

to feel unwell

vsto feel gyppy

3 1.8

To be sick or slightly ill

is focused on nausea and stomach discomfort rather than general illness

to feel a bit gyppy

vsto feel gyppy

Archaic

9.9

To be a little sick in the stomach

is more strongly about nausea and stomach unease

to feel poxy

vsto feel gyppy

Slang

9.9

To be a little sick, often after eating bad food

is specifically about nausea and stomach unease rather than vague minor illness

Antonyms

fine

∞ 1.0

In good enough condition so no one needs to worry

How Nauseous

sick

579 1.0

to feel gyppy

Slang

9.9

queasy

30 4.1

Surface Forms

feel gyppy infinitive

feeling gyppy present participle

feels gyppy third person singular

felt gyppy past

felt gyppy past participle

Morphology

feel + gyppy

The verb 'feel' is transparent, but the crucial element 'gyppy' is not a recognizable English morpheme (missing from dictionaries and not analyzable), so a B1 learner who only knows the constituent forms could not predict its meaning. The item appears to be slang/dialectal for 'nauseous/queasy' and must be learned by exposure rather than composition, so it is opaque.

Etymology

Feel gyppy may come from old slang 'gyp', which meant to upset or trouble. Imagine your stomach being upset or turned over—if it is, you 'feel gyppy', so the phrase now means 'to feel nauseous'.