sicker

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)

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Etymology 1

sick +‎ -er

Adjective

sicker

1. The 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 sēcūrus (“secure”, literally “without care”). Doublet of sure and secure.

Alternative forms

• siker
• siccer
• siccar

Adjective

sicker

1. (obsolete outside dialects) Certain.

   I'm sicker that he's not home.

2. (obsolete outside dialects) Secure, safe.

   To walk a sicker path

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     Life's no sicker station.

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     We made sicker that he was wi' you.

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     I'm as great on the side of the law as it's sicker to be in the uncertain times.

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 sikeniez (“(it) trickles, (it) leaks, (it) oozes”)), from Old English sicerian (“to ooze, seep”), from Proto-Germanic *sikrōną (“to trickle”), from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“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, UK, dialect) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sicker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Rickes, Riecks, ickers, scrike

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German

Verb

sicker

1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of sickern.
2. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of sickern.

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Middle English

Adjective

sicker

1. Alternative form of siker

Adverb

sicker

1. Alternative form of siker