All 7 Uses of
dyspeptic
in
Moby Dick
- So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have "broken his digester."†
Chpt 10-12
- This is the reason why most dyspeptic religionists cherish such melancholy notions about their hereafters.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.†
Chpt 16-18
- I then asked Queequeg whether he himself was ever troubled with dyspepsia; expressing the idea very plainly, so that he could take it in.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- In truth, it turned out to be one of those problematical whales that seem to dry up and die with a sort of prodigious dyspepsia, or indigestion; leaving their defunct bodies almost entirely bankrupt of anything like oil.†
Chpt 91-93
- By some, ambergris is supposed to be the cause, and by others the effect, of the dyspepsia in the whale.†
Chpt 91-93
- How to cure such a dyspepsia it were hard to say, unless by administering three or four boat loads of Brandreth's pills, and then running out of harm's way, as laborers do in blasting rocks.†
Chpt 91-93
Definitions:
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(dyspeptic as in: diet for dyspeptics) relating to indigestion (dyspepsia)
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(dyspeptic as in: dyspeptic attitude) irritable or tending towards a bad mood