sicker
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/ˈsɪkɚ/
Definition of sicker
6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- (comparative, form-of)comparative form of sick: more sick.
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adj
- (comparative, form-of)comparative form of sick: more sick.
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(dialectal, obsolete)Certain.
“I'm sicker that he's not home.”
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(dialectal, obsolete)Secure, safe.
“To walk a sicker path”
“But ſicker ſo it is, as the bꝛight ſtarre / Seemeth ay greater, when it is farre:”
“And here was we made sicker than he was wi' you[…]”
“I'm as great on the side o' the law as it's siccar to be in thae uncertain times.”
adv
- (dialectal, obsolete)Certainly.
- (dialectal, obsolete)Securely.
verb
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(dialectal, figuratively, intransitive, obsolete)To percolate, trickle, or seep; to ooze, as water through a crack.
“No drop of water fell from the hot blue Or sickered from the skeleton of earth.”
“This cause had sickered into his soul; it had been branded upon his forehead somehow, by some hand; he knew not how nor by whom.”
“The solution steadily sickered through the debris and the sampling of the solutions could be carried out without taking the equipment into pieces.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English siker, sikker, sykkere, secre, seccre, from Old English sēocra (“sicker”), equivalent to sick + -er.
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