name, noun, slang ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

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."

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname from German.

Example

More examples

"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.

Related phrases

sickle cell disease

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