to feel poxy
- phrasal verb
- Slang
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sentirse mal
- After eating that street food, she started to feel poxy and went straight to bed.
Examples
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I always feel poxy after pulling an all-nighter for work.
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She feels poxy after that long flight.
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Do you feel poxy today, or are you coming to the football match?
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I feel poxy today.
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After eating that street food, she started to feel poxy and went straight to bed.
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I always feel poxy after pulling an all-nighter for work.
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Do you feel poxy today, or are you coming to the football match?
Synonyms
73
1.9
To be physically or emotionally uneasy
8
6.9
To be sick, weak, or unhappy
5
6.3
To be slightly unwell in your body or mind
3
1.8
To be sick or slightly ill
To be a little sick in the stomach
Have a sick feeling in the stomach and want to throw up
Antonyms
How Unwell
579
1.0
3
1.8
- Slang
- Informal
5
6.3
685
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The structure is a straightforward predicative combination: 'feel' + adjective, so if a learner knows 'poxy' as 'rotten/poor', they can compositionally infer 'feel poxy' = 'feel rotten/unwell'. Although 'poxy' is informal and somewhat rare, the meaning follows a standard, cross-linguistically common pattern of feeling + adjectival state, making the phrase predictable to a learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
The phrase feel poxy may come from the old word pox, a disease that made people spotty and very sick. That's why saying you feel poxy means 'to feel ill'.