sick
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English [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Middle English sek, sik, from Old English sēoc, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz (confer West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech), from Proto-Indo-European *seug- (“to be troubled or grieved”) (confer Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “I am weakening”)).
Pronunciation [edit]
- enPR: sĭk, IPA: /sɪk/, X-SAMPA: /sIk/
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- Homophones: sic, Sikh
Adjective [edit]
sick (comparative sicker, superlative sickest)
- In poor health
- She was sick all day with the flu
- (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
- (colloquial) In bad taste.
- That's a sick joke.
- Having an urge to vomit.
- (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome.
- This tune is sick.
- Dude this car has a fully sick subwoofer!
- In poor condition
- (sick building syndrome; my car is looking pretty sick; my job prospects are pretty sick)
- (agriculture) failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
- To be tired with or annoyed of something.
- I've heard that song on the radio so many times that I'm starting to get sick of it.
Synonyms [edit]
- (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): rad, wicked
- See also Wikisaurus:diseased
Antonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from the adjective "sick"
Translations [edit]
in poor health
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colloquial: mentally unstable, disturbed
colloquial: in bad taste
Noun [edit]
sick (uncountable)
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) Sick people in general as a group.
- We have to cure the sick.
- (colloquial) vomit.
- He lay there in a pool of his own sick.
Synonyms [edit]
- (vomit): See Wikisaurus:vomit
Translations [edit]
sick people
vomit
Verb [edit]
sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Etymology 2 [edit]
Verb [edit]
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 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.
- 1920, James Oliver Curwood, "Back to God's Country"
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