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Sickler

name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.
  2. 2
    A person who has sickle-cell disease. informal

    "I met girls born with sickle cell anemia like my brother […] We called them sicklers. They called themselves sicklers."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From sickle + -er.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Sickler, perhaps a variant of Siegler.

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