to feel a bit gyppy
- phrasal verb
- Archaic
:
sentirse un poco mal
- I felt a bit gyppy after eating the seafood at that restaurant.
Examples
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She started feeling a bit gyppy soon after the drive, perhaps from motion sickness.
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If you feel a bit gyppy this morning, you should probably skip breakfast.
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I feel a bit gyppy after that meal.
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She felt a bit gyppy after the rollercoaster ride.
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I felt a bit gyppy after eating the seafood at that restaurant.
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If you feel a bit gyppy this morning, you should probably skip breakfast.
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She felt a bit gyppy after the rollercoaster ride.
Synonyms
3
1.8
To be sick or slightly ill
Have a sick feeling in the stomach and want to throw up
To be a little sick, often after eating bad food
Antonyms
How Nauseous
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'gyppy' is an informal, regional lexical item whose meaning 'slightly unwell/queasy' is not compositionally derived from 'feel' + 'a bit' + 'bit'. Knowing the other constituents does not allow a B1 learner to infer this specific sense because the key lexical meaning is idiomatic and lexicalized rather than predictable from its parts; its colloquial/regional nature also limits cross-linguistic cues.
Etymology
Feel a bit gyppy may come from an old small word that sounded like a quick stomach move, like 'gip'. Imagine your stomach giving a little jump or twist and you feel uneasy, so feel a bit gyppy means 'to feel slightly sick'.