Middle English Dictionary Entry
queisī(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | queisī(e adj. Also queisẹ̄, kueise, quesie, coisi & kise. |
| Etymology | From ON: cp.OI kveisa a boil & iðra-kveisa bowel pains. Sense (b) may reflect an ironic use of AF queisier, CF coisier to calm. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of food: unsettling to the stomach, queasy; (b) of humors: ?associated with nausea; (c) of events or the state of affairs: unsettled, uncertain.
Associated quotations
a
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)227/9 : Drynke at mete and at soper no othyr drynke ix dayes and ete non kyse metis.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)134/21 : Late hym etyn qwat mete hys herte stant to best, sawe þe most queysy metys.
- a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes (Hrl 2378)93/2 : Lat hym eten what mete his herte stant to, saue qweysy metes.
- a1500 PFulham (Jas 43)19 : In stede of sturgen or lamprons, he drawyth vp a gurnerd or gogeons; kodlynges, konger, or suche queyse [vr. coisy] fysche As wolwyche roches that be not worthe a rusche.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)77/12 : And in all this tyme hele the wounde with a red coole-lef and abstine hym from alle qweysy metis and wymmen.
b
- a1450 *3 Inspect.Hematoscopy (Htrn 307)f.166r : If þe blod aftir þe puttyng of blod water is brotil and esy to sundre it bitokneþ moche drienesse and if it be touȝ it bitokneþ quesy & viscouse humours.
c
- (1459) Paston (EETS)1.468 : The worlde semyth qweysye heer, fore the most part that be abowt the Kyng haue sende hyddre for ther harneys.
- (1459) Paston2.185 : Be my feyth, here is a coysy werd.
- (1471) Paston (EETS)1.438 : The worlde, I ensure yow, is ryght qwesye.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?a1450 Þe man þt wylle (Sln 1314)18 : From queysy [Payne: So þe seek wol do wysely, and kepe him-self fro surfety].
Note: New gloss "--also as noun" should be added to sense (a).