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sicker¹

  • /ˈsɪkɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɪkə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English siker, sikker, sykkere, secre, seccre, from Old English sēocra (“sicker”), equivalent to sick + -er.

adjective

  1. comparative comparative form of sick: more sick.

sicker²

  • /ˈsɪkɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɪkə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

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.

adjective siker · siccer · siccar

  1. Certain. I'm sicker that he's not home.
  2. Secure; safe. To walk a sicker path

adverb siker · siccer · siccar

  1. Certainly.
  2. Securely.

sicker³

  • /ˈsɪkɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɪkə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

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.

verb sickers · sickering · sickered · sigger · zigger

  1. figuratively, intransitive 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.

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@misc{sicker_2026,
  title = {sicker},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sicker},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}