pig-sick
- adjective
- Informal
:
muy enfermo
- After eating that spoiled food, I felt pig-sick.
Examples
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She was pig-sick of hearing the same complaints every day at work.
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After the roller coaster ride, he felt pig-sick and needed to sit down.
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He grew pig-sick after eating too much at the festival.
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She was pig-sick after the long trip.
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After eating that spoiled food, I felt pig-sick and had to rush to the bathroom.
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He felt pig-sick after indulging too much at the buffet and could barely move.
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She was pig-sick of listening to his excuses and decided to end the conversation.
Synonyms
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5.3
Feeling very annoyed because you have had too much of something
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6.7
Slightly ill in the stomach and likely to throw up
Very annoyed and no longer willing to accept someone or something
Very disappointed and upset because things did not turn out well
Feeling like you are about to throw up
Antonyms
How Sick
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pig-sick comes from the image of being as sick as a pig after eating too much or from strong disgust. A helpful way to remember it is to think of pig as in pig out ('eat too much') and sick ('ill' or 'fed up'), so pig-sick means feeling very ill or completely fed up.