crawsick adj.
(Irish) suffering from a hangover.
Tea Drinking Wife, and Drunken Husband 7: You go to the Ale-House & get drunk with strong Beer [...] You are both crawsick and quarrelsome all the next Day. | ||
‘A Drop of Dram’ in A. Carpenter Verse in Eng. in 18C Ireland (1998) 397: Craw sick Luke he wakens, and he call for mugs of ale. | ||
‘A Drop of Dram’ Luke Caffrey’s Gost 6: [as previous]. | ||
Eng. As We Speak It In Ireland. | ||
Ulysses 32: You mean that knockkneed mother’s darling who seems to be slightly crawsick? | ||
Stone Mad (1966) 69: The next morning we were both craw-sick, so the good woman gave us a good tightener of the home-cured bacon. | ||
All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 67: A bit craw-sick perhaps. |