sicker

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Pronunciation

• (GA) IPA: /ˈsɪkɚ/

Adjective

1. The comparative form of sick.

Adjective

sicker

1. (obsolete, outside, dialects) Certain.

   I'm sicker that he's not home.

2. (obsolete, outside, dialects) Secure, safe.

   To walk a sicker path

   • Life's no sicker station.

   • We made sicker that he was wi' you.

   • I'm as great on the side of the law as it's sicker to be in the uncertain times.

Adverb

sicker

1. (obsolete, outside, dialects) Certainly.
2. (obsolete, outside, dialects) Securely.

Verb

sicker (sickers, present participle sickering; past and past participle sickered)

1. (mining, UK, dialect) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.

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