greensick, a. ? Obs.
(ˈgriːnsɪk)
[Back-formation from green sickness.]
Affected with green sickness; also fig. ‘morbid’, ‘sickly’.
| 1681 Broadside, Canto on Miracle wrought by the D. of M[onmouth], But O the Greensick Girls may boast This Duke hath cur'd Them to His Cost. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iii. 93 Green-sick persons are unfit for exercise. 1807 Opie in Lect. Paint. (1848) 316 Those greensick lovers of chalk, brickdust, charcoal, and old tapestry. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 83 There is even ground for carrying the term, with other authors, still further, and applying it to green-sick boys, as well as green-sick girls. |