Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to distress, to make nauseous.

1865		Dickens in All Year Round 7 Dec. 47/2: The discovery turned me over .
1906		E. Dyson Fact’ry ’Ands 238: Ev’ry one else got ’ardened t’ th’ hum iv onyins, but Artie he never cud. It fair turned him up, ’n’ he’d go er pale pea-green.
1939		K. Tennant Foveaux 21: I was on the whisky, love, and it turned me up something terrible. [...] What it did to my inside was a crime.
1949		R. Park Poor Man’s Orange 110: ‘Have a bite?’ ‘Ah, you turn me up!’.
1962		F. Norman Guntz 86: I must admit that it [i.e. an anecdote] turned me up.
1976		(ref. to 1930s) R. Barnes Coronation Cups and Jam Jars 71: He’d get as close as he could to you, and take out his glass peeper. It’d fair turn you over.