different between sicker vs sicke

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?k?/
• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English siker, sikker, sykkere, secre, seccre, from Old English s?ocra (“sicker”), equivalent to sick +? -er.

Adjective

sicker

1. comparative form of sick: more sick.

Etymology 2

From Middle English siker, from Old English sicer, sicor, from Proto-West Germanic *sikur (“free, secure”), from Latin s?c?rus (“secure”, literally “without care”). Doublet of sure and secure.

Alternative forms

• siker, siccer, siccar

Adjective

sicker

1. (obsolete outside dialects) Certain.

2. (obsolete outside dialects) Secure, safe.

Adverb

sicker

1. (obsolete outside dialects) Certainly.
2. (obsolete outside dialects) Securely.

Derived terms

• sickerly
• sickerhood
• sickerness

Etymology 3

From Middle English *sikeren (attested only as sikeriez (“(it) trickles, (it) leaks, (it) oozes”)), from Old English sicerian (“to ooze, seep”), from Proto-Germanic *sikr?n? (“to trickle”), from Proto-Germanic *s?k? (“slow running water”). Akin to sitch.

Alternative forms

• sigger, zigger

Verb

sicker (third-person singular simple present sickers, present participle sickering, simple past and past participle sickered)

1. (mining, Britain, dialect) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.

References

• sicker at OneLook Dictionary Search
• sicker in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Reicks, Rickes, Riecks, crikes, ickers, scrike

German

Pronunciation

Verb

sicker

1. inflection of sickern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Middle English

Adjective

sicker

1. Alternative form of siker

Adverb

sicker

1. Alternative form of siker

English

Adjective

sicke

1. Obsolete spelling of sick

Anagrams

• Eicks, Sieck