sick

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.2 Adjective 1.1.2.1 Synonyms 1.1.2.2 Antonyms 1.1.2.3 Derived terms 1.1.2.4 Translations 1.1.3 Noun 1.1.3.1 Synonyms 1.1.3.2 Translations 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English sēoc

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• enPR: sĭk, IPA: /sɪk/, SAMPA: /sIk/
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• Rhymes: -ɪk
• Homophones: sic

[edit] Adjective

sick (comparative sicker, superlative sickest)

1. In poor health
2. (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
3. (colloquial) In bad taste.

   That's a sick joke.

4. Having an urge to vomit.
5. (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome.

   This tune is sick.

6. In poor condition

   (sick building syndrome; my car is looking pretty sick; my job prospects are pretty sick)

[edit] Synonyms

• (in poor health): ill, not well, poorly (British), sickly, unwell
• (mentally unstable): disturbed, sick in the head, twisted, warped.
• (having an urge to vomit): nauseated, nauseous
• (slang: excellent): cool, rad, wicked
• See also Wikisaurus:diseased

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• (in poor health) fit, healthy, well
• (slang: excellent): crap, naff, uncool

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[edit] Noun

the sick (collective noun)

1. Those people as a group who are sick.

   We have to cure the sick.

2. (colloquial) vomit.

   He lay there in a pool of his own sick.

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• (vomit): See WikiSaurus:vomit

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[edit] Verb

to sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of sic.
   • 1938, Eugene Gay-Tifft, translator, The Saga of Frank Dover by Johannes Buchholtz, 2005 Kessinger Publishing edition, ISBN 141915222X, 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 1552380408, page 82,

     Now they find a new entertainment: they sick the dog on us.