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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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health
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English helþe, from Old English h?lþ, from Proto-West Germanic *hailiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, hale”). Cognate with Old High German heilida. Analyzable as whole +? -th, hale +? -th, or heal +? -th. More at heal.
Alternative forms
- helth, helthe, healthe (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?lth, IPA(key): /h?l?/, [h?l??]
- Rhymes: -?l?
Noun
health (usually uncountable, plural healths)
- The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness. [from 11th c.]
- A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
- Physical condition.
- in shape, in forme.
- (obsolete) Cure, remedy. [16th c. (Middle English: 11th-15th c.)]
- (countable) A toast to prosperity. [from 17th c.]
- (video games) The amount of damage an in-game object can withstand before it is destroyed.
Derived terms
Related terms
- heal
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English heleð (“man, hero, fighter”), from Old English hæleþ (“man, hero, fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic *haliþ, from Proto-Germanic *haliþaz (“man, hero”). Cognate with West Frisian held (“hero”), Dutch held (“hero”), German Held (“hero”), Danish helt (“hero”), Swedish hjälte (“hero”), Norwegian hold (“hero”).
Alternative forms
- heleth
Noun
health (plural healths)
- (obsolete) A warrior; hero; man.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion
- They, under false pretence of amity and cheer, the British peers invite, the German healths to view.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion
References
- health in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- health in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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