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dizzy
English
Alternative forms
- dizzie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English disy, dysy, desi, dusy, from Old English dysi?, dyse? (“dizzy; foolish; unwise; stupid”), from Proto-Germanic *dusigaz (“stunned; dazed”). Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?d?zi/
- Rhymes: -?zi
Adjective
dizzy (comparative dizzier, superlative dizziest)
- Having a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
- I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.
- 1627, Michael Drayton, Nimphidia, the Court of Faery
- Alas! his brain was dizzy.
- Producing giddiness.
- We climbed to a dizzy height.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
- ...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.
- Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.
- My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
Derived terms
- dizzies (noun)
- dizzily
- dizziness
- dizzyingly
Translations
Verb
dizzy (third-person singular simple present dizzies, present participle dizzying, simple past and past participle dizzied)
- (transitive) To make dizzy, to bewilder.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.161:
- Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature […].
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.161:
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sick
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?k, IPA(key): /s?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophones: sic, Sikh
Etymology 1
From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English s?oc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz (compare West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk sjuk), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”); compare Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian ???????? (hiwcanim, “I am weakening”).
Adjective
sick (comparative sicker, superlative sickest)
- (more common in the US) In poor health; ill.
- Synonyms: ill, not well, poorly, sickly, unwell
- Antonyms: fit, healthy, well
- Having an urge to vomit.
- Synonym: nauseated
- 1913, The Texas criminal reports, page 8:
- In the meantime the old man had gotten up and gone out in the yard and began to vomit. Henry said I believe I feel sick and got up and went out. He went out one door and his father went out the other one. I did not think there was anything wrong with the coffee and I asked my wife to pour this out […]
- 1918, Cecil Day Lewis, The Whispering Roots, Jonathan Cape, page 140:
- Q. Didn't he complain he was sick before he commenced to vomit?
- A. He did, just before he said, to me, “I feel sick,” I asked him if he wanted to throw up and he said yes.
- 1958, Gene D'Olive, Chiara, Signet Book
- […] trying hard to cry. Crying's good. Crying teaches him to breathe. But I wish he weren't crying from hunger. I feel dizzy. I sit down and feel a little sick. Maybe I'll vomit, too. No, I never vomit. I feel sick, but I won't vomit. I never vomit.
- 2013, Cheryl Rainfield, Stained, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (?ISBN), page 38:
- I feel sick, like I might vomit, and I'm more tired than I can ever remember feeling.
- (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
- Synonyms: disturbed, twisted, warped
- (colloquial) In bad taste.
- Tired of or annoyed by something.
- (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
- Synonyms: rad, wicked
- Antonyms: crap, naff, uncool
- In poor condition.
- (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
Synonyms
- (in poor health): See also Thesaurus:diseased
- (having an urge to vomit): See also Thesaurus:nauseated
- (slang: excellent): See also Thesaurus:excellent
Derived terms
Descendants
- ?? Navajo: sxih
Translations
Noun
sick (uncountable)
- (Britain, Australia, colloquial) Vomit.
- (Britain, colloquial) (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated
Synonyms
- (vomit): See Thesaurus:vomit
Translations
Verb
sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)
- (colloquial) To vomit.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.
- circa 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 2:
- Our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died.
- circa 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 2:
Etymology 2
Variant of sic, itself an alteration of seek.
Verb
sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)
- (rare) Alternative spelling of sic
- 1920, James Oliver Curwood, "Back to God's Country"
- "Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick 'em, Wapi—sick 'em—sick 'em—sick 'em!"
- 1938, Eugene Gay-Tifft, translator, The Saga of Frank Dover by Johannes Buchholtz, 2005 Kessinger Publishing edition, ?ISBN, page 125,
- When we were at work swabbing the deck, necessarily barelegged, Pelle would sick the dog on us; and it was an endless source of pleasure to him when the dog succeeded in fastening its teeth in our legs and making the blood run down our ankles.
- 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 154,
- "...is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."
- 2001 (publication date), Anna Heilman, Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman, University of Calgary Press, ?ISBN, page 82,
- Now they find a new entertainment: they sick the dog on us.
- 1920, James Oliver Curwood, "Back to God's Country"
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