Definition of "dyspepsy" []

• Dyspepsia (noun)

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• "Fust thing is a new set of teeth, -- you done gummed yourself into dyspepsy and gineral cantankerousness, -- and then I 'm sot on taking you to my house to visit a month and eat good victuals and git your stummick opened up whar it done growed together, and your mind unj'inted, and your sperrits limbered similar.'"
• "Besides, they eat them unhealthy oysters and Charlotte rooshes, and such like: no wonder so many people get the dyspepsy."
• "This development of character had been gradual, and she scarcely realized his entire devotion to business, till she saw his health affected by that scourge of our "pleasant vices," dyspepsy."