sick
noun
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L327748 on Wikidata ↗verb
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L332993 on Wikidata ↗adjective
- feeling uncomfortable in the body or part of the body due to suffering from something
- macabre, gruesome, disgusting
- really amazingly cool. dude.
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪk/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English sēoc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”). See also West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish sjuk, Danish syg; also Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “to be weakening”). The "very good, excellent" sense is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of "in poor health". Compare similar semantic development in terrific and wicked.
- In poor health; ill.
“We have to care for the sick.”
“Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.”
- In poor health; ill.
“She was sick all day with the flu.”
“sick with a cold—sick with contagious diseases—sick with sciatica—sick with love—sick with worry”
- Having an urge to vomit.
“My daughter was violently sick three times in the night.”
“In the meantime the old man had gotten up and gone out in the yard and began to vomit. Henry said I believe I feel sick and got up and went out. He went out one door and his father went out the other one. I did not think there was anything wrong with the coffee and I asked my wife to pour this out […]”
- Mentally unstable, disturbed.
“You sick bastard!”
“What a sick, sick feeling / To let you go, my dear”
- In bad taste.
“That’s a sick joke.”
- [with of] Tired of or annoyed by (something that has lasted a long time or often recurs).
“sick and tired of the whining—sick of waiting—'sick of politics”
“I’ve heard that song on the radio so many times that I’m starting to get sick of it.”
- Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
“This tune is sick.”
“He showed off his sick surfing skills.”
- In poor condition.
“sick building syndrome; my car is looking pretty sick; my job prospects are pretty sick”
- Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
name
Etymology: * As a Dutch and German surname, shortened from names like Siegfried, Siegmund and similar. Compare Sieck, Zeek. * As a Czech surname, Americanized from Šik; also Slovene, Carpathian Rusyn, and Serbo-Croatian Šic, converged from several origins such as síč (“sower”), the source of Schuetz, or Slavicized from Hungarian szűcs (“furrier”). Compare Shick.
- A surname from German.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English sēoc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”). See also West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish sjuk, Danish syg; also Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “to be weakening”). The "very good, excellent" sense is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of "in poor health". Compare similar semantic development in terrific and wicked.
- Vomit.
“[…] they're spitting and belching chunks of lentilly gunk. Looks like sick.”
“The bogan, true to form, laps it up like a dog does its own sick.”
- (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated.
verb
Etymology: Variant of sic, itself an alteration of seek.
- Alternative spelling of sic (“set upon”).
“"Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick 'em, Wapi—sick 'em—sick 'em—sick 'em!"”
“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.”