Reverse Dictionary: SICK

ADJECTIVES
► ABRAM shamming sick → Bk1909 cant
► AEGROTANT sick, excused from some duty on account of sickness → 1880 rare
► AGLISH nauseated; sick to one’s stomach → 1999 Can.
► AILISH sick → 1941 Amer. dial.
► ALL IN very sick → 1967 Amer. dial.
► AMPERY of persons: sickly, unhealthy → 1736 Eng. dial.
► ANGISH sickly, unhealthy, very poorly → B1900 Ireland
► BACKGONE sickly, pining away → 1877 N. Ireland
► BAD ill, sick, in pain; injured → 1716 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
► BADLY unwell, indisposed, sick, in ill health → 1783 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► BAD OFF sick → Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
► BARLEY-SICK sick from excessive drinking → Bk1911 Sc.
► BEHEEMED sickly, feeble → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► BELOW THE FORD under the weather; not actually sick, but not feeling just right → 1966 Amer. dial.
► BLACK TO THE BONE of persons: worn by disease and having a dark or sallow complexion → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► BLEAK pale, wan, sickly-looking → 1868 Eng. 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.
► CAPPEL-FACED pale or sickly-looking → 1872 Eng. dial.
► CAPTAIN COOK ill, sick → 1950 Aust. rhyming sl. for ‘crook’
► CHIPPY unwell, sick → L19 sl.
► CRAFTY-SICK feigning illness for a particular reason → 1600 obs.
► CRANKY ailing, sickly, in weak health, infirm in body → 1787 Eng. dial.
► CRAPULOUS suffering from the effects of intemperance in drinking; sick from excessive drinking → 1755
► CRAWLY-MAWLY in a weak and ailing state; poorly, sickly; indifferently well → 1677 Eng. dial.
► CRAZY indisposed, ailing; diseased, sickly, weakly; frail, infirm → 1576 obs.
► CREACHY infirm, ailing, ill, sickly → 1842 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► CRONK sick, or feigned to be sick → 1900 Aust. sl.
► CROP-SICK sick in the stomach esp. from excessive eating and drinking → 1625 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► DACKLIE pale, having a sickly appearance → 1825 Sc. obs.
► DAUNCEY ► DAUNCY ► DONCY ► DONSEY ► DONSIE ► DONSY sickly, unwell, indisposed → 1874 Ireland & Amer. dial.
► DAUNY ► DAWNEY ► DAWNY wretched; miserable; pale; sickly; weakly; delicate, in poor health  → Bk1900 Irish usage
► DEAD-ILL sick with a mortal malady → 1897 Sc.
► DEATH-SICK sick unto death, mortally sick or ill → 1628
► DICKEY ► DICKIE sickly, sick → 1883 UK rhyming sl.
► DILFA doleful; sickly → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► DONNY wretched; miserable; pale; sickly-looking → Irish usage
► DOWN IN THE BUSHES sick, in hard luck, etc. → Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
► FAINT of persons or animals: weak, feeble; sickly, out of condition → c1350 obs.
► FAINTY faint, sickly, languid; later, inclined to swoon → 1530 obs. exc. poetic usage
► FALLEN AWAY TO A CARTLOAD thin, wasted, sickly looking → 1939 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► FAUCHIE of persons: sickly-looking, pasty-faced, pale → 1911 Sc.
► GOUSTY of persons: sickly, emaciated, haggard → 1678 Sc.
► GRANKY sickly and complaining; slightly unwell; cranky → B1900 Eng. dial.
► GREEN having a pale sickly complexion → 1275
► GREEN AROUND THE GILLS sick → Bk1995 US sl.
► HALISH pale, sickly in appearance; weak; ailing → 1895 Eng. dial.
► HEARTSICK mortally ill, sick unto death → Bk1902 Eng. dial. 
► ILL-DOING in a bad condition; sickly → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► ILL-SPUED in a bad condition, sickly → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► ILL-THRIVEN badly grown, sickly, stunted → 1806
► IN ONE’S NAKED BED down sick → Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
► KEELED UP very sick, laid up or worn out from sickness or old age → 1899 Amer. dial.
► LANGUENT that is sick → c1510 obs.
► LOW SICK seriously ill, very sick → 1937 Amer. dial.
► MALADIF sickly; delicate → 1886
► MALADIOUS affected with sickness, sickly → 1607 obs.
► MALADIVE affected with sickness, sickly → 1481 rare
► MALICEFUL sickly; in bad health → Bk1905 Sc.
► MAUGER lean, thin, peaked, sickly, weak in appearance → 1890 Amer. dial.
► MAWKISH slightly indisposed; faint; sick from drinking → 1896 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MAWKY dirty; white and sickly-looking → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► MENDIC ► MINDIC sick, ill → c1925 Aust. sl.
► MICKEY ► MICKY sick, ill → L19 rhyming sl.
► MIMMOCKING dainty in appetite; puny, sickly, weakly → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► MOBY DICK sick, ill → 1990s rhyming sl.
► MORBULENT sickly, full of diseases → 1656 obs.
► NAAR sick, queasy → 1968 S. Afr. sl.
► NAUGHTY sick, malfunctioning → 1989 sl.
► NESH dainty, delicate; tender, sensitive; sickly → 1691 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
► OFF-KEEL not in good health, slightly sick; off-colour → 1968 Amer. dial.
► OLD MICK sick → 1984 rhyming sl.
► ON THE DANGER LIST very sick → 1969 Amer. dial.
► ON THE LIFT too weak to stand unaided; sick, ill, ailing, or exhausted → 1888 Amer. dial.
► ON THE MENDING HAND improving, recovering health; recovering from sickness or injury; convalescent → 1675 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► PAALIE-MAALIE of a person: sickly, not quite in good health → Bk1905 Sc.
► PEAKED in poor health, sickly, unwell → 1864 Amer. dial.
► PEAKED AND PINED listless; sickly → 1872 Amer. dial.
► PEAKED AND PINEY listless; sickly → 1957 Amer. dial.
► PEAKEDY peaked; in poor health, sickly, unwell → 1956 Amer. dial.
► PEAKING sickly, unwell, in poor health → 1902 Amer. dial.
► PEAKISH sickly, unwell, in poor health → 1877 Amer. dial.
► PEAKY ► PEEKY feeble, puny, sickly → 1821 colloq. & Eng. dial.
► PIMPING puny, sickly, emaciated → 1845 Amer. dial.
► PIMPY puny, sickly, emaciated → 2000 Amer. dial.
► PINDLING puny, sickly, ailing, delicate, weak, frail → 1862 Amer. dial.
► PINDLY puny, sickly, ailing, delicate, weak, frail → 1959 Amer. dial.
► PINK AROUND THE GILLS looking sickly → 1965 Amer. dial.
► PINKISH looking sickly → 1965 Amer. dial.
► PINKY looking sickly → 1965 Amer. dial.
► PUKEY sickly; about or likely to vomit → M19 colloq.
► PUNIED UP sickly, weak, under the weather → 1989 Amer. dial.
► PUNY not in good health; ailing, sickly → 1766 Amer. dial.
► QUAB sickly, infirm → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► QUALMISH ► QUAMISH affected by nausea, queasy, sick at the stomach, inclined to vomit → 1787 Amer. dial.
► QUALMY affected by nausea, queasy, sick at the stomach, inclined to vomit → 1852 Amer. dial.
► QUEACHY ► QUEECHY feeble, sickly, weak, small → 1859 Eng. dial. 
► QUEASED OUT nauseated; sick → 1993 US sl.
► QUOPPY palpitating; having faint sickly feelings → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► RATTY sick → 1960s Amer. sl.
► RINEY sickly → 1967 Amer. dial.
► ROCKY of a person: dizzy; sickly; nauseated → colloq.
► ROUGH unwell, sick; tired, dejected; now, esp. as the result of a hangover or lack of sleep → 1882 colloq., orig. Eng. dial.
► SALVY of the complexion: pale, sickly → 1897 Eng. dial.
► SAPPY pallid, sickly, faint → Bk1904 Eng. dial.
► SCALY sick, run-down → L18 sl.
► SICK ABED ON TWO CHAIRS ► SICK ABED ON TWO CHAIRS WITH ONE’S FEET IN THE WOODBOX not seriously sick or ill
► SICK AS A BLACKFELLOW’S DOG very sick → Aust. sl.
► SICK AS A CAT very sick or ill→ L17 sl.
► SICK AS A DOG sick, but not necessarily vomiting → 1705
► SICK AS A HORSE said when a person is exceedingly sick without vomiting → 1765
► SICK AS A MULE extremely sick or ill → M18 sl.
► SICK AS A RAT very sick → L19 sl.
► SICK AS MUCK extremely sick → L19 sl.
► SICKER THAN SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS extraordinarily sick → 1923 Amer. dial.
► SICKIFIED  inclined to be sick → B1900 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.
► SICKLE sickly → c1290 obs.
► SICKLEW sick, unhealthy → 1387 obs. rare
► SICKLIED rendered sickly or mawkish → 1835
► SILLY weakly, feeble, sickly, ailing → a1585 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► TEULY ► TEWLY ► TOOLY ► TULY weak, sickly, delicate; poorly, unwell → 1691 Eng. dial.
► TEUNY weak, sickly, undersized → 1887 Eng. dial.
► TEW tender, sickly, small, weak → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► THOUGHT-SICK sick from thinking; sick with anxiety; uneasy with sad reflections; sad, sorrowful, melancholy → 1598 obs.
► UNCLE DICK sick → 1960 UK rhyming sl.
► UNDOUGHT sickly, puny, feeble; contemptible → 1773 Sc.
► WAFF-LOOKING feeble or sickly in appearance → 1923 Sc.
► WAIRSH weak, delicate, wanting in stamina; faint, as from want of food; sickly-looking → 1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WALSHOCH pale and sickly-looking → 1925 Sc. 
► WAMBLE-CROPPED affected with nausea, sick → 1552
► WAMBLE-STOMACHED affected with nausea, sick → a1610 obs.
► WANKLE unsteady, insecure; changeable, unsettled, precarious; inconstant, wavering; also, weak in health, delicate, sickly → c888 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► WEASLY shrivelled, stunted; sickly-looking; contemptibly small or worthless → 1856 Amer. dial.
► WHITE AS A MAWK, AS sickly-looking → 1889 Eng. dial.
► WIMBLY-WAMBLY unsteady; dizzy; feeling sick and giddy → 1881 Eng. dial.
► YACK sick → 2001 UK sl.
► YELLOW-YOWLING sickly and jaundiced-looking → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► YEWKING having a sickly appearance → Bk1905 Eng. dial.

ADVERBS
► YEWKINGLY in a sickly way → Bk1905 Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► ADLE sickness, disease → c1000 obs.
► AEGRITUDE sickness → 1532 obs.
► AILING sickness, ailment, a long-standing illness → Bk1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BADLINESS illness, sickness → 1878 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BADNESS sickness, illness, disease → 1885 Eng. dial.
► BARREL-FEVER sickness caused by excessive drinking → 1791 Eng. dial.
► BED-EVIL illness or sickness that confines to bed → 1609 obs. exc. Sc.
► BLACK DROPS, THE a state of mild physical discomfort; not actually sick, but feeling not quite right → 1966 Amer. dial.
► BRASH a slight attack of sickness often arising from a digestive order such as heartburn; sudden nausea → 1830 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► DAUNCEY weak, sickly → 1925 Ireland 
► DAUNY ► DAWNEY wretched; miserable; pale; sickly-looking → Bk1900 Irish usage
► DEEDLE mortal injury or sickness; death → 1853 Sc.  
► DWINDLES the condition of an older hospital patient who is fading away → 1981 US sl.
► EGRITUDE sickness → 1532 obs.
► EGROTING a feigned sickness → 1732
► HEAL recovery from sickness, healing, cure → c1175 obs. exc. Sc.
► HEART-GROWN sickly, puny, having spinal curvature from a supposed bewitchment → 1860 Eng. dial. 
► LANGUOR disease, sickness, illness → a1300 obs.
► MALEASE disease, sickness → a1300 obs.
► MONOPATHOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of sickness in a specified part of the body → Bk1991
► NOSOPHILIA an excessive, abnormal desire to be sick → Bk1991
► PATHOPHILIA an excessive, abnormal desire to be sick → Bk1991
► PEAKED having pinched features; thin, wasted, sickly-looking; unwell → 1836 Eng. dial.  
► PEAKING sickly, feeble; pinched in appearance → 1777 Eng. dial.  
► PEAKY having pointed, pinched features; sickly-looking; delicate → 1880 Eng. dial.  
► QUOP faint, sickly feelings → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► SICK-HOUSE a house set apart for sick persons; a hospital → 1491 rare
► SICKIE a day’s sick leave, esp. one taken without valid medical reason → 1953 Aust. & NZ sl.
► SOUGHT n. sickness, illness, disease → 1300 Eng. dial.
► SWEAM a sudden fit of sickness or fainting; a swoon → 1415 obs.
► TAWM a fit of faintness or sickness → 1846 Sc.
► VAPORS sickness; a fainting spell; nausea → 20C colloq.

NOUNS – PERSON
► AEGROTANT a sick person, an invalid → 1865 rare
► BARBER’S CAT a weak, sickly, malnourished person → 1864 sl.
► BEDFUL OF BONES an emaciated sick person → 1990 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CACOCHYMIC an ‘ill-humoured’ person; one having unhealthy or evil ‘humours’ (humour ► any fluid or semi-fluid in the body, as blood, bile, phlegm) → 1569
► CACOCHYMIST a person of unhealthy or depraved ‘humours’ → 1684 obs.
► CACOSTOMACHUS one who has a bad stomach → Bk1736 obs.
► CHURCHYARD DESERTER a very sickly-looking person → 1880 Eng. dial.
► COUNTERFEIT CRANK a rogue who feigned sickness in order to move compassion and get money → 1567 thieves’ sl., obs.
► CROYL a dwarf; a stunted, deformed person or child; a small, sickly child → 1776 Sc.
► DEATHLY-GROATS a person having a death-doomed look, or a sickly constitution → 1855 Eng. dial.  
► DOWN-MAN a sick or infirm man → 1670 obs. rare
► DWINDLE a poor sickly child → 1847 Eng. dial.
► DWINING one who pines away, a sickly person → 1400 obs.
► GHOST a sickly, thin, or undersized person; a term of contempt → 1805 Sc. obs.
► GRAVE-DESERTER a white, sickly-looking person → Bk1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GRICE an untidy, ill-mannered person; a sickly or deformed child → Bk1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MALADE a sick person; an invalid → 1483 obs.
► MARTYR someone who is habitually a prey to a particular ailment → 1847 sl.
► ONWAIT a person requiring constant attendance, as in sickness, or who causes a long wait → 1866 Sc.
► PEA-GOOSE one who has a sickly and silly appearance → Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
► QUAB a sickly, infirm person → Bk1880 Eng. dial.
► RINEY a thin, or sickly person → 1967 Amer. dial.
► SCRADYIN a puny, sickly child → 1825 Sc. 
► SICKLING a sickly or delicate person → 1834
► SICKREL a puny, sickly person → a1700 cant obs.
► SUNCATE a weak, sickly child → Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
► TRAIN WRECK a person with many medical problems and in failing condition → 1980s US medical sl.
► TWANGLES a sickly weak child or person → Bk1875 Eng. dial.
► UNDERLING a sickly or stunted child; a dwarf; the weakest animal of a herd, etc. which is bullied by the rest; the smallest pig of a litter; a small or inferior fruit or vegetable → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► URLING a dwarfish person or child; a puny, stunted, sickly child → 1788 Sc. & Eng. dial. 
► WINNICK a sickly person; a puny, delicate child → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► WRECK a sick person → 1795 sl.
► WYLLEMENT a pale, sickly-looking person → Bk1895 Eng. dial. obs.

NOUNS – PERSON – OTHER
► WAKER one who sits up with a sick person → 1798 Eng. dial.
► YAYA a woman employed by a family to look after a child, or a sick or elderly person; also, a familiar form of address → 1973 Philippine English

PHRASES
► GYPSY IN THE PARLOR said of a person who pretends to be sick, often to get out of doing something → 1968 Amer. dial.
► IN ONE’S NAKED BED in one’s sickbed → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)

PREPOSITIONS
► BACKWARDING relapsing into sickness → Bk1898 Eng. dial.

VERBS
► ABRAHAM SHAM to sham sick → Bk1909 cant
► AG to feel sick, to have an inclination to vomit → 1908 Sc.
► BANG IN SICK to call in sick → Bk2006 US sl.
► BASH to lose flesh, to become sickly, to fall off in appetite, etc. → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► BE MASKING of a person: to be sickening for a disease → 1887
► BUG DOWN to get sick on the job → 1933 Amer. dial.
► COT to wait on a sick person; to saunter about home → 1878 Eng. dial.
► DIVE to play sick to avoid a test → Bk1970 US students’ sl.
► DO ABRAM to sham sick → Bk1909 cant
► DWALM ► DWAM to faint, to swoon; to become unconscious; also, to sicken or fail in health → a1513 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► EGROTE to be sick; to feign sickness → 1721-61 obs.
► FALL BY to be sick or affected with any ailment; to be confined in child-bed → Bk1900 Sc.
► FALL DOWN to take to one’s bed; to sicken → 1757 obs.
► GAMMON LUSHY to pretend to be drunk or sick → 1812 sl.
► GAMMON QUEER to pretend to be drunk or sick → 1812 sl.
► HEART to sicken, to nauseate, to make one sick → 1885 Sc.  
► KECK to retch, to feel sick; to faint suddenly → 1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► LANGERN to languish, to lie sick → c1440 obs. rare
► MALADIZE to affect with a malady → 1790 obs. rare
► ORP to complain from ill health, to be constantly ailing and sickly, not to thrive, to shrink, to shrivel → 1820 Sc.
► PAWNCY WITH to do everything for a sick person → Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
► PEAK to look pinched and sickly; to waste away → 1900 Eng. dial.  
► QUALM to make sick or uneasy → 1884 Amer. dial.
► RAILROAD to malinger; to pretend to be sick → 1967 Amer. dial.
► SET UP to come down with or develop a sickness or disease → 1966 Amer. dial.
► SHAM ABRAM to feign madness; to feign sickness → 1759 cant
► SICK to suffer illness; to fall ill, to sicken → a1150 obs.
► SICKLE to be or fall ill, to sicken → c1000 obs.
► SICKLIFY to make sick or sickly → 1851 rare
► TAKE DOWN to reduce in health; to emaciate; to lay low in sickness; to become sick or ill → 1822 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► TAPIS ► TAPISH to languish, to pine away; to be mortally sick or diseased → c1375 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TARLE to labour under disease → Bk1905 Sc.
► TARLOCH to show symptoms of disease → Bk1905 Sc.
► TAUNT to sicken from eating disgusting food; to upset the digestion → 1898 Sc.
► TAWM ► TAWM OVER to swoon; to fall from faintness or sickness → 1684 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TURN ONE’S HEART OVER to make one sick → Bk1902 Eng. dial.  
► UNCLE DICK to be sick or ill → 1970s rhyming sl.