OUT OF SORTS
ADJECTIVES
► ALL OUT out of sorts; having a feeling of general discomfort → 1967 Amer. dial.
► AWFISH ► AWVISH slightly unwell, out of sorts → 1790 Eng. dial.
► CATTY-CORNER out of sorts, ill-tempered, annoyed, upset → 1884 Amer. dial.
► CATTY-CORNERED out of sorts, ill-tempered, annoyed, upset → 1954 Amer. dial.
► CROOK out of sorts, injured → E20 Aust. & NZ
► DICKY of persons, animals, etc.: poorly, out of sorts, in weak health, ill → 1883 Eng. dial.
► DUSTY tetchy, irritable, out of sorts → 1980s US students’ sl.
► OFF HIS SAUCER tired, not in the humour, out of sorts → 1892 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► OOLIE ailing, ill, out-of-sorts → 1929 Sc.
► OOLIE-LIKE ailing, ill, out-of-sorts → 1929 Sc.
► OORLICK of persons: miserable-looking from cold, hunger, or illness; pinched, haggard, shivery, out-of-sorts → 1768 Sc.
► OUT OF ONE’S GEARS out of sorts; irritable, grouchy → a1700 obs.
► QUEER AS DICK’S HATBAND out of sorts, dispirited, ‘under the weather’ → L18 sl.
► QUISBY queer, out of sorts, unwell → 1854 sl.
► QUISBY SNITCH of people: unwell; out of sorts → M19 sl.
► RAGGED nervy, out of sorts, under the weather, unwell, tired → L19 sl., orig. Aust.
► UNEVEN out of sorts, slightly unwell → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► UNKED ► UNKID of a place: lonely, dreary, desolate; of a person: feeling lonely; dull, depressed, miserable; out of sorts → 1777 Eng. dial.
► UNKY of a place: lonely, dreary, desolate; of a person: feeling lonely; dull, depressed, miserable; out of sorts → 1777 Eng. dial.
NOUNS
► OORIECOORIE a drowsy dull condition of body or sprits, a being sulky or out-of-sorts, a peevish, fretful mood; generally in plural → 1893 Sc. obs.
VERBS
► FEEL FLAT to be low-spirited, out of sorts → 1838 Amer. sl.
► HAVE THE WOOLIES to be nervous or out of sorts → 1900 US students’ sl.
► LOOK LIKE ONE WAS SENT FOR AND COULDN’T COME to look indisposed, out of sorts, or exhausted → 1843 Amer. dial.
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