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Sicker

//ˈsɪkɚ// adj, adv, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    comparative form of sick: more sick. comparative, form-of
  2. 2
    Certain. dialectal, obsolete

    "I'm sicker that he's not home."

  3. 3
    Secure, safe. dialectal, obsolete

    "To walk a sicker path"

Adverb
  1. 1
    Certainly. dialectal, obsolete
  2. 2
    Securely. dialectal, obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To percolate, trickle, or seep; to ooze, as water through a crack. dialectal, figuratively, intransitive, obsolete

    "No drop of water fell from the hot blue Or sickered from the skeleton of earth."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

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.

Etymology 3

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.

Etymology 4

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.

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