seasick

[see-sik] Origin

sea·sick

[see-sik]
adjective
afflicted with seasickness.

Origin:
1560–70; sea + sick
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Seasick is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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seasick (ˈsiːˌsɪk)
 
adj
suffering from nausea and dizziness caused by the motion of a ship at sea
 
'seasickness
 
n

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seasick
1566, from sea + sick (q.v.).
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