Reverse Dictionary: ILL

ADJECTIVES
► ABED confined to bed by illness; laid up → 1660
► ABOUT TO DIE taken seriously or suddenly ill → 1902 Amer. dial.
► ABOUT TO KICK THE BUCKET taken seriously or suddenly ill → 1902 → Amer. dial.
► ABOUT TO PASS taken seriously or suddenly ill → 1902 Amer. dial.
► ADDLE ailing, ill, unwell → 1844 Eng. dial.
► AILISH slightly ill → 1941 Amer. dial.
► AILY slightly ill, not well → 1952 Amer. dial.
► ALL-GONE fatigued, weak, somewhat ill, lifeless, without energy → 1950 Amer. dial.
► ALL OVER generally ill; of pain, etc.: that affects the whole body → 1861 colloq.
► ALL-OVERISH having a general feeling of illness or agitation that seems to affect the whole body; generally indisposed; off-colour → 1820 colloq.
► AT THE END OF ONE’S ROPE fatally ill → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BAD ill, sick, in pain; injured → 1716 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
► BAD-A-BED so ill as to be obliged to remain in bed → 1875 Eng. dial.
► BAD IN ONESELF ill generally, but without any particular local ailment → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BADLY unwell, indisposed, sick, in ill health → 1783 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► BAD SICK seriously ill → 1928 Amer. dial.
► BELOW PAR somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BLUE AROUND THE GILLS ill; nauseated → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► BOOKED fatally ill; beyond recovery → 1968 Amer. dial.
► BRASH indisposed; susceptible to illness; sickly, in poor health → 1895 Amer. dial.
► BRASHY indisposed; susceptible to illness; sickly, in poor health; weak; of delicate constitution; subject to frequent ailments → 1895 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► BUM ill, though not seriously so → 1943 Amer. dial.
► BUMMY ill, though not seriously so, indisposed → 1931 Amer. dial.
► BUNGED UP ill, out of health → 1909 Amer. dial.
► BUTCHER’S (HOOK) ill → 1967 Aust. rhyming sl.  for ‘crook’
► CAPTAIN COOK ill, sick → 1950s Aust. rhyming sl. for ‘crook’
► COMPLAINY ill, unwell, ailing → 1887 Amer. dial.
► CRAFTY-SICK feigning illness for a particular reason → 1600 obs.
► CREACHY infirm, ailing, ill, sickly → 1842 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► CROOK ill → 1908 Aust. & NZ colloq.
► DANGEROUS in danger from illness; dangerously ill → 1797 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DEAD-A-BIRD nearly dying; ill → 1893 Eng. dial.
► DEAD-ILL sick with a mortal malady → 1897 Sc.
► DEATH-SICK sick unto death, mortally sick or ill → 1628
► DEPRAVED weakly, ill → 19C Eng. dial.
► DICKEY ► DICKY of persons, animals, etc.: poorly, out of sorts, in weak health, ill → 1883 Eng. dial.
► DONE UP ill; anywhere from slightly to seriously ill → 1848 Amer. dial.
► DOPEY slightly ill, under the weather → 1965 Amer. dial.
► DOWN ill → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► DOWN IN THE DIKE unwell, ill → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DOWN IN THE MOUTH somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DOWN ON THE LIFT too weak to stand unaided; sick, ill, ailing, or exhausted → 1952 Amer. dial.
► DUMPY somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► FEELING FUNNY somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► FEELING LIKE THE WRATH OF GOD feeling very ill, esp. if from a bad hangover → c1950 sl.
► FIN OUT injured, ill; near death → 1916 Amer. dial.
► FRAGILE ill → 1883 sl.
► FULL OF CRINKS AND CRANKS complaining of ill health → 1888 Eng. dial.
► FUNNY ill → 1898 sl.
► GLASSY-EYED alcohol or drug intoxicated; drugged or suffering from an illness → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► GREEN recently recovered from an illness → 1598 obs.
► GREEN ABOUT THE GILLS ill, nauseous, sickly-pale → 1949 UK sl.
► GRIM ill → 1984 sl.
► HAVING THE IMPUCK somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HAYWIRE ill → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HEARTSICK mortally ill, sick unto death → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ICKY ► IKKY ill → 1939 sl.
► ICKY-BOO ► ICKY-POO ill → 1920 sl.
► ILL-AFFECTED affected with illness or indisposition; diseased → 1604 obs.
► ILL AS A WITCH, AS very ill → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ILLISH somewhat ill or unwell; indisposed → 1637
► IN A BAD WAY ill; in trouble
► INDIFFERENT poorly, bad, ill → 1889 Eng. dial.
► INDISPOSED ill → 20C colloq.
► IN ONE’S NAKED BED ill; confined to bed → 1914 Amer. dial.
► KEELED UP disabled, laid up with illness or injury → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LEWDLY, poorly, ill → c1386
► LIKE DEATH WARMED UP ill → 1939 sl.
► LOUSY ill → 1933 sl.
► LOW SICK seriously ill, very sick → 1937 Amer. dial.
► LUNK feeling ill → L19 Irish sl.
► MENDIC sick, ill → c1925 Aust. sl.
► MICKY sick, ill → L19 rhyming sl.
► MINDIC sick, ill → 1920s Aust. sl.
► MOBY DICK sick, ill → 1990s rhyming sl.
► MUFFED-UP suffering from an imaginary or pretended illness → 1954 Amer. dial.
► NOT UP TO DICK somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► NOT UP TO PAR somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► NOT UP TO SAMPLE somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► NOT UP TO SCRATCH somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► NOT UP TO SNUFF somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► NOT UP TO THE MARK somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► NOTHING TO SHOUT ABOUT somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► NOTHING TO WIRE HOME ABOUT somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► NOTHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OFF in ill health; feeling or looking unwell; despondent, unenthusiastic → 1890s colloq.
► OFFAL in ill health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OFFALOUS in bad health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OFF COLOUR slightly indisposed; ill → 1876 sl.
► OFFISH unwell, out of health, somewhat ill, indisposed → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OFF ONE’S EATS unable to eat normally; slightly ill; indisposed → 1965  Amer. dial.
► OFF ONE’S FEED unable to eat normally; slightly ill; indisposed → 1862 Amer. dial.
► OFF ONE’S FORM somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OFF POLISH somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OFF THE HOOKS somewhat ill; indisposed; unwell, ailing → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OFF TONE somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ON THE LIFT 1. too weak to stand unaided; sick, ill, ailing, or exhausted → 1888 Amer. dial.
2. convalescent, getting better after an illness → 1892 Amer. dial.
► ON THE SICK used to denote incapacity due to illness, and receipt of sickness benefit → 1976 sl.
► ON THE SICK-LIST ill → 20C colloq.
► OOLIE ailing, ill, out-of-sorts → 1929 Sc.
► OOLIE-LIKE ailing, ill, out-of-sorts → 1929 Sc.
► OUT OF IT tired, exhausted, ill → 1958 sl.
► OUT OF ONE’S FORM somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OUT THE MONK disabled through illness or lack of some essential → 1946 sl.
► PEAKISH weak, ill → 1903 Eng. dial.   (Bk.)
► PEAKY sickly, unwell, in poor health, ill→ 1821
► PECULIAR ill → 1954 sl.
► POORISH somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► POORLYISH somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PUNKISH somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PUNKY somewhat ill; indisposed → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► QUEER ill → 1781 sl.
► RAMSHACKLE in a state of ill health, weak → 1889
► RAUNCHY ill, unwell → 1970s US students’ sl.
► ROCKY in poor health; ill, unwell → L18
► ROPEY ► ROPY ill → 1945 sl.
► ROTTEN ill → 1881 sl.
► ROUGH ill → a1893 sl., orig. Eng. dial.
► SAD-BAD ill; in health; very bad → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SADLY in bad health, ill, poorly → 1711 now Eng. dial.
► SADLY-BAD very ill → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SADLY-BADLY very ill or unwell; very much indisposed → 1880 Eng. dial.
► SADLY-POORLY very ill → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SADLY-SURRILY very ill → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCABBED mean, paltry, worthless, petty; ill-looking, shabby → 1794 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SEEDY ill → 1858 sl.
► SHITTY unwell, ill → 1920s US sl.
► SICK ABED ON TWO CHAIRS ► SICK ABED ON TWO CHAIRS WITH ONE’S FEET IN THE WOODBOX not seriously sick or ill → 1968 Amer. dial.
► SICK AS A CAT very sick or ill→ L17 sl.
► SICK AS A MULE extremely sick or ill → M18 sl.
► SICK AS A PEAT excessively ill → 1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SICK IN FOURTEEN LANGUAGES very sick or ill indeed → L19 US sl.
► SICK IN ONE’S NAKED BED ill; confined to bed → 1896 Amer. dial.
► SPLEENY a little ill → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► STRUCK WITH THE SPANISH MILDEW pretending or imagining he or she is ill → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► TEWLY in ill health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UNDER THE WEATHER ill → 1850 sl. orig. US
► VARMENT-LOOKING ill-looking → 1851 Eng. dial.
► WAMBLE-CROPPED vaguely unwell, under the weather → 1844 Amer. dial.
► WANNY pale, ill-looking; hungry → 1804 Sc. & Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► ACCESS a coming on of illness or disease, esp. of sudden illness → c1325
► ACHAQUE habitual indisposition, ailment, an attack of chronic illness → 1646 obs.
► ACME the point of extreme violence of a disease or illness; the crisis → c1630 arch.
► ACT pretended illness or ill-temper → 1940s Aust. sl.
► ADLE sickness, disease; also, an illness, an ailment → c1000 obs.
► AIL an illness, ailment, or complaint → 1750 Eng. dial.
► AILING sickness, ailment, a long-standing illness → 1898 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ALL-INS general feelings of discomfort, illness, annoyance, or vexation → 1967 Amer. dial.
► ALL-OVERISHNESS a feeling of illness or extreme agitation seeming to affect the whole body → 1820 colloq.
► ALL-OVERNESS a feeling of illness or extreme agitation seeming to affected the whole body; the state of feeling generally ill → 1792 colloq.
► ALL-OVERS general feelings of discomfort, illness, annoyance, or vexation → 1893 Amer. dial.
► BACKCAST a misfortune, reverse; used often of a relapse during illness or a moral backsliding → 1818 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BACKENING relapse in illness → 1878 Eng. dial.
► BACK-FLING a relapse during illness → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BACK-GAIN a relapse in illness → 1898 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BACK-KNOCK a relapse during illness → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BACKSET a relapse in illness → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BACK-THRUST a relapse during illness → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BADLINESS illness, sickness → 1878 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BADNESS sickness, illness, disease → 1885 Eng. dial.
► BARCOO SPEW illness accompanied by attacks of vomiting → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BARLEY-FEVER illness caused by drinking to excess → 1828 Sc.
► BED-EVIL illness or sickness that confines to bed → 1609 obs. exc. Sc.
► BLAST a sudden illness; a chill → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BOT a minor illness; a cold, etc. → 1968 NZ colloq.
► BUG, THE. a cold or illness, esp. the flu → 1914 Amer. dial.
► BUNK FATIGUE illness requiring a patient to stay in bed → Amer. World War I sl.
► CACOPATHY an old term for a severe affliction or malady → 1721 obs.
► CAPE FEVER a feigned illness → 1830 US nautical sl.
► CHOKERMAN’S BRUTE any illness not otherwise known or named → 1958 Amer. dial.
► CRUD any disease or illness → 1932 sl.
► DEAD-ILL a mortal illness → 1822 Sc.
► DEATH-ILL mortal illness → c1425 obs.
► DECUMBITURE a taking to one’s bed through illness → 1647 obs.
► EPIZOOTIC a human illness or ailment → c1883 Amer. dial.
► EVIL an ill, complaint, illness; a swelling on the neck or other local affliction → 1683 Eng. dial.
► FAKING counterfeiting illness → M19 UK prison sl.
► GANDIVEESE a trifling or imaginary illness, esp. one used as an excuse for shirking work → 1900 Sc.
► GASTRO gastroenteritis → 1975 Aust. sl.
► GOLLYWOBBLES a stomach-ache; a general feeling of discomfort or illness; diarrhoea → 1942 Amer. sl.
► GREEK BACK a supposedly fake illness or incapacity, used to justify malingering, apparently by Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs and others seen as lazier than ‘White’ Australians → 1970s Aust. sl.
► GROUTIES, THE a general feeling of discomfort or illness; bad feelings → 1969 Amer. dial.
► HEART-FEVER an illness or disease → 1886 N. Ireland 
► HUMDUDGEON an imaginary illness; hypochondria → 1785
► ILL illness, pain; disease; difficulty → 1813 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ILLING a being or becoming ill; illness → 1719 obs.
► INWARD TROUBLE an internal disease or illness → 1787 Sc.
► JIGGERS feelings of uneasiness, anxiety, apprehension, or nervousness; general feelings of discomfort, illness, or vexation → 1966 Amer. dial.
► JIMJAMS feelings of uneasiness, anxiety, apprehension, or nervousness; general feelings of discomfort, illness, or vexation → 1896 Amer. dial.
► JUDGING DAY a  critical day during the course of an illness → 1547 obs.
► JUDICATORY a critical day or time during an illness → 1684 obs.
► KWAAL an illness; a complaint → 1960s S. Afr. sl.
► LAG-FEVER a term of ridicule applied to men who, being under sentence of transportation, pretend illness to avoid being sent from jail to the hulks → 1811
► LANGUOR disease, sickness, illness → a1300 obs.
► MEAGRIES. miseries, ills → 1885 Sc.
► MEDITERRANEAN BACK a supposedly fake illness or incapacity, used to justify malingering, apparently by Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs and others seen as lazier than ‘White’ Australians → 1970s Aust. sl.
► MISERIES a general feeling of discomfort or illness → 1965 Amer. dial.
► MOLLYCODDLES an imaginary disease or illness → 1969 Amer. dial.
► MOLLYGRUBS ► MULLIGRUBS a condition of despondency or ill temper; sulkiness, sullenness, the blues; a vague or imaginary illness → 1806 Amer. dial.
► MONDAY MORNING HEADACHE an imaginary illness used as an excuse to avoid work or school → 1967 Amer. dial.
► MONDAY MORNING SICKNESS ► MONDAY SICKNESS an imaginary illness used as an excuse to avoid work or school → 1967 Amer. dial.
► MONDAYITIS a fictitious illness due to a reluctance to return to work after the weekend → 1908 colloq.
► MUFF-UPS an imaginary or pretended illness → 1954 Amer. dial.
► NADGERS, THE a non-specific affliction, disease, or illness → 1956 Brit. sl.
► NOSOPHILIA an abnormal desire to be ill → 1991 (Bk.)
► OFFSET a hindrance, delay; a setback, anything that causes delay; an illness; the time wasted by any hindrance → 1865 Sc.
► OGGY a supposed ‘disease’ contracted by boys through physical interaction with girls → 2001 UK juvenile sl.
► ONCOME an illness the cause of which is unknown; a mysterious disease → 1819 Sc.
► ONSET an attack of disease of unknown origin; a sharp attack of illness → 1818 Sc.
► PANTOD a vague or undefined illness; an imaginary illness; a fit; a violent pain → 1901 Amer. dial.
► PATHOPHILIA an abnormal desire to be ill → 1991 (Bk.)
► PIP, THE illness or malaise in humans → a1425 humorous usage
► POLLYMARBLES collywobbles; depression or nervousness; some imaginary or undefined illness → 1971 Amer. dial.
► QUEER STREET an imaginary street where people in difficulties are supposed to reside; hence, any difficulty, fix, or trouble, bad circumstances, debt, illness, etc. → 1837 sl.
► SCHOOL-BELL FEVER an illness feigned to avoid having to go to school → 1967 Amer. dial.
► SCHOOL-BUS CRAMPS an illness feigned to avoid having to go to school → 1967 Amer. dial.
► SCHOOL-BUS FEVER an illness feigned to avoid having to go to school → 1967 Amer. dial.
► SHOWER an attack of physical or emotional suffering; a bout of illness; a spasm of pain → a1300 Sc.
► SICK a disease or illness → a1300 obs.
► SICKIE ► SICKY a feigned illness cited as grounds for missing work → 1953 Aust. sl.
► SIEGE a prolonged period of distress, esp. from an illness → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SMATCH a slight touch of illness, pain, etc. → 1647
► SNICK-UP an indefinable illness, not easily cured; a slight ailment → 1830 Eng. dial.
► SOUGHT n. sickness, illness, disease → 1300 Eng. dial.
► TAKING a seizure or attack of disease; a stroke or palsy or the like; an attack of illness; a sudden seizure of pain; a sore, a swelling also, enchantment → 1533 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TAKING-DISEASE an infectious illness → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TARROW a slight illness, an indisposition → 1866 Sc.
► TURN a sudden feeling of illness → 1775 sl.
► WAFF a slight attack or ‘touch; of illness, esp. of cold → 1808 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► WALKING SICKNESS an illness in which the person it still able to get about and is not confined to bed → 1846
► WEARY WILLIES, THE general feelings of physical discomfort or illness, esp. delirium tremens → 1965 Amer. dial.
► WEEBLES an ill-defined or undefined illness → 1947 US sl.
► WHIM-WHAMS general feelings of discomfort, illness, or vexation → 1966 Amer. dial.
► WHISKEY ROT almost any illness; any unspecified illness → 1970 US sl. (Bk.)
► WILLIES, THE feelings of physical discomfort or illness, esp. delirium tremens → 1905 Amer. dial.
► WIM-WAMS general feelings of discomfort, illness, or vexation → 1966 Amer. dial.
► WOG a germ that causes an illness → 1941 Aust. sl.
► WOOLLIES, THE general feelings of physical discomfort or illness → 1965 Amer. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► COT-CASE a very ill, highly intoxicated, or bedridden person → 1897
► DECUMBENT one lying ill in bed → 1641  obs.
► FAKIR a person feigning illness or injury → 1912 sl.
► OLD SOLDIER a deceitful person; one who shams illness → 1874 Eng. dial.
► SICK a person suffering from illness → c888 obs.
► SICKMAN a man who is ill → c1340 obs.
► WATER-MONGER a person who diagnoses illness on the basis of the visual inspection of urine → 1623 obs.

PHRASES
► AIN’T MUCH is not very well, is ill → 1904 Amer. dial.
► ANOTHER CLEAN SHIRT OUGHT TO SEE YOU OUT you look very ill, i.e. you look as if you’ll soon be dead → 1930s NZ sl.
► EYES LIKE TWO BURNED HOLES IN A BLANKET said of someone very ill, his or her eyes standing out prominently in a pale drawn face → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► PRETTY NIGH FIN OUT very ill → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► ABRAM to malinger, to fake illness → M19 sl.
► ACT POSSUM to feign; to pretend to be ill or dead → 1844 US sl. obs.
► AIL ALONG ► AIL AROUND to be or seem to be slightly ill → 1933 Amer. dial.
► AILD to make mildly ill; to trouble or upset → 1903 Amer. dial.
► BACKEN to get worse, to have a relapse in illness → 1891 Eng. dial.
► BAFF to struggle, either against illness or weather → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BAG IT to feign illness in order to avoid one’s responsibilities → 1967 Amer. dial.
► BE IN LOW COTTON to feel ill; to be in a state of malaise or depression → 1941 Amer. dial.
► BE TAKEN BAD ► BE TOOK BAD to have fallen ill → M19 sl.
► BLOW LUNCH to become ill from drinking → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► BLUFF to feign illness → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BUCKEYE to make or become ill → 1868 Amer. dial.
► COME THE POSSUM OVER A PERSON to feign; to pretend to be ill or dead → 1844 US sl. obs.
► CRACK ON to pretend, esp. to pretend to be ill or hurt → 1880s sl. ? orig, military
► ENJOY POOR HEALTH to be ill → 1848 Amer. dial.
► FAIL UP to decline in health; to fall ill → 1914 Amer. dial.
► FAIRRIE to collapse in an exhausted condition or from sudden illness → 19C Sc.
► FALL to be taken ill of a disease → 1538 obs.
► FEEL LIKE THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER to have a general feeling of discomfort or illness → 1966 Amer. dial.
► GET ONE’S HEAD-GEAR to have an illness, to get one’s death-blow, to be mortally injured → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GET THE MISERIES to be in pain; to be ill → 1990s African-American sl.
► GRUNT to be ill or ailing → 1893 Amer. dial.
► GRUNT AROUND to be ill or ailing → 1960 Amer. dial.
► HAVE ONE FOOT ON A BANANA PEEL ► HAVE ONE FOOT ON A BANANA PEEL AND THE OTHER IN A GRAVE to be severely ill or very old, slipping toward death → 1965 Amer. dial.
► HAVE ONE’S FACE ONE’S WORST LIMB to look ill → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► KECKLE-UP to show signs of renewed interest or spirit; to brighten or perk up; to recover from illness or sadness → 1866 Sc.
► LINGER ► LINGER ON to ail, to have a continuing illness → 1859 Amer. dial.
► MEGGAR to improve, to get better; to recover from an illness, etc.; to get over an illness → 1856 Eng. dial.
► MUSTER ONE’S BAG to be ill → L19 Brit. nautical sl., esp. Royal Navy
► PATIATE to suffer from an illness or disability → 1653  obs.
► PEG OUT to get ill; to die → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► PLAY OLD SOLDIER to sham illness → 1967 Amer. dial.
► PLAY POSSUM to feign; to pretend to be ill or dead → 1844 US sl.
► PLAY THE OLD SOLDIER to malinger; to feign illness; to practice deception → 1713 military sl.
► PUNY to be ill, unwell → 1893 Amer. dial.
► QUAIL to languish; to fall ill; to faint; to have a sinking sensation in the stomach → 1790 Eng. dial.
► QUEAL to languish; to fail in any way; to fall ill; to faint; to have a sinking sensation in the stomach → 1515 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SALIVATE to make severely or fatally ill → 1984 Amer. dial.
► SICK to suffer illness; to fall ill, to sicken → a1150 obs.
► SICKLE to be or fall ill, to sicken → c1000 obs.
► TAKE DOWN to reduce in health; to emaciate; to lay low in sickness; to become sick or ill → 1822 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► TAPISH ► TAPPISH to waste or pine away; to begin to be mortally ill → 1875 Eng. dial.
► TAVE to labour under a disease; to recover from a very severe illness → 1875 Sc.