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🤢 Stomach discomfort 😒 Always complaining
gripey

gripey

9.5
Causing or showing stomach pain and cramping
  • adjective
  • /ˈɡraɪpi/
  • Archaic
translation icon : cólico
  • After eating the undercooked beans, he complained of a gripey feeling in his stomach.

Examples

  • The doctor advised her to avoid foods that made her feel gripey or uncomfortable.

  • Some medicines can have gripey side effects, especially in sensitive individuals.

  • I feel quite gripey after that meal.

  • The food was gripey and made me uncomfortable.

  • After eating the undercooked beans, he complained of a gripey feeling in his stomach.

  • The doctor advised her to avoid foods that made her feel gripey or uncomfortable.

  • Some medicines can have gripey side effects, especially in sensitive individuals.

Synonyms

colicky
vsgripey
5 8.2

Having sudden strong stomach pains from gas, often in babies who cry a lot

is broader, meaning general stomach discomfort and cramping rather than only severe periodic pain

How Painful

colicky
5 8.2
gripey
  • Archaic
9.5
queasy
30 4.1

Surface Forms

gripey positive

Morphology

gripey = gripe (opaque) = gripe + y

The suffix '-y' typically forms adjectives, but the specific meaning related to stomach pain is not directly derivable from 'gripe'.

Etymology

Gripey comes from the old verb gripe, which meant 'to grab' or 'to hold', like something suddenly grabbing your stomach. So gripey describes a stomach that hurts or cramps, as if it is being grabbed.