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sicker

adj
/ˈsɪkɚ/US

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English *sikeren (attested only as sikeriez (“(it) trickles, (it) leaks, (it) oozes”)), from Old English sicerian (“to ooze, seep”), from Proto-West Germanic *sikarōn, from Proto-Germanic *sikarōną (“to trickle”), from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow running water”). Cognate with German Low German sickern (“to seep”), German sickern (“to seep, trickle”). Akin also to English sitch.

  1. derived from *sīką✻ — “slow running water”
  2. inherited from *sikarōną✻ — “to trickle”
  3. inherited from *sikarōn✻
  4. inherited from sicerian — “to ooze, seep”
  5. inherited from *sikeren✻

Definitions

  1. comparative form of sick

    comparative form of sick: more sick.

  2. Certain.

    • I'm sicker that he's not home.

  3. 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[…]
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Certainly.

    2. Securely.

    3. To percolate, trickle, or seep

      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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sicker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA