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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"
Anagrams
- CKIs
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caudle
English
Etymology
From Old Northern French caudel, from Medieval Latin caldellum, diminutive of Latin caldum, caldus (“warm”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??d?l/
- Rhymes: -??d?l
- Homophones: coddle (in accents with the cot-caught merger), caudal
Noun
caudle (plural caudles)
- A hot drink given to the sick, consisting of wine or ale, eggs, and bread.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 4:
- A venerable lady, known as Great-Aunt Grantley, who had money to bequeath to the Heir, and whom Adrian called The Eighteenth Century, occupied with Hippias the back ground of the house, and shared her caudles with him.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 4:
Synonyms
- posset
Verb
caudle (third-person singular simple present caudles, present participle caudling, simple past and past participle caudled)
- (transitive) To make into caudle.
- (transitive) To serve as a caudle to; to refresh.
Anagrams
- Claude, DeLuca, Deluca, cedula
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