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to make someone gyppy

to make someone gyppy

9.9
Give someone a sick feeling in the stomach after eating or drinking
  • phrasal verb
  • Archaic
translation icon : hacer sentir mal
  • That seafood dish made me gyppy all night.

Examples

  • The strong smell in the kitchen started to make her gyppy after a few minutes.

  • Spicy food sometimes makes him gyppy, so he avoids it.

  • Did Emily make you gyppy with her cooking?

  • John always makes me gyppy with his meals!

  • After eating that rich dessert, I felt like it made me gyppy for hours.

  • The combination of the greasy burger and milkshake really made him gyppy.

  • The strong fish odor from the market sometimes makes her gyppy if she lingers too long.

Synonyms

to sicken
vsto make someone gyppy
11 4.1

Make someone feel physically ill or upset

causes nausea specifically after food or drink, not general physical or mental illness
to turn one's stomach
vsto make someone gyppy
6 7.0

To make you feel sick or disgusted

causes nausea mainly after eating or drinking rather than general illness

How Sick

to sick
3 3.2
to make someone gyppy
  • Archaic
9.9

Surface Forms

make someone gyppy infinitive
made someone gyppy past
made someone gyppy past participle
making someone gyppy present participle
makes someone gyppy third person singular

Morphology

make + someone + gyppy

The syntactic pattern 'make someone X' is transparently causative, so if a learner knew the adjective 'gyppy' as 'nauseous/ill' they could derive the meaning 'cause someone to feel gyppy'. However 'gyppy' is a rare, dialectal slang item with no clear morphological or cross-linguistic motivation, so the crucial lexical piece is not predictable from its parts and the overall expression is only partially transparent.

Etymology

Make someone gyppy may come from the bumpy motion of old traveling wagons. One popular story says people on those rides often felt sick from the bumps, so to make someone gyppy came to mean 'to make someone feel ill'.