slang. [cf. prec.] Queer, not quite right; bankrupt.
1853. Household Wds., VIII. 75/2. To say that a man is without money, or in poverty, some persons remark that he is … quisby, done up.
1854. Tait’s Mag., XXI. 532. Larson is not so well as he should be—rather quisby about the throat.
1892. Punch, 12 March, 123/1. He’s a-looking queer and quisby.
