UNHEALTHINESS, UNHEALTHY
ADJECTIVES
► AMPERY of persons: sickly, unhealthy → 1736 Eng. dial.
► ANGISH sickly, unhealthy, very poorly → 19C Ireland
► BACK-GAIN of persons: not thriving in health or in worldly concerns → 1867 Sc.
► EATEN AND SPUED unhealthy → c1779 Sc.
► HAGGERIN AND SWAGGERIN in a poor state of health → 1825 Sc.
► HEALLESS deprived of health or well-being → c1374 obs.
► HEALTHLESS without health, unhealthy → 1568
► ILL-HABITED having an ill habit of body, unhealthy, disordered → 1642 obs.
► MALIFEROUS bringing or producing evil or harm; hurtful, unwholesome, unhealthy, insalubrious → 1727
► NAUGHTY bad in respect of health; unhealthy; connected with ill health → 1572 obs.
► PEAL of the countenance: unhealthy, pasty-looking → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PEASLY said of a person who looks poorly or unhealthy → 1969 Amer. dial.
► RACKETY insalubrious, unhealthy → M19 sl.
► SICKLEW sick, unhealthy → 1387 obs.
► TALLOWY-FACED sallow, unhealthy in appearance → 1887 Eng. dial.
► UNBONNY unhealthy → 1881 Sc.
NOUNS
► HEALTHLESSNESS unhealthiness, unwholesomeness → 1655
NOUNS – PERSON
► DARLING an unhealthy child → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PUKE a poor, puny, unhealthy-looking person → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
► PYOCK a poor, unhealthy-looking person → Irish sl.
► TAKEN-AWAY an unhealthy, puny child; a changeling → 1823 Sc.
► WINDLE-STRAW a thin, unhealthy person; a vacillating fellow → 1818 Sc.
► YOKEY-MOLKIT ► YOKLY-MOLE-KIT a yellow, unhealthy-looking person → 1855 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► LOOK LIKE HAMMERED HELL to look unhealthy, or as if one hasn’t been well for some time → 1970 Amer. dial.