sick

Meanings

Adjective

• In poor health; ill.
• Having an urge to vomit.
• Mentally unstable, disturbed.
• In bad taste.
• Tired of or annoyed by something.
• Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
• In poor condition.
• Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.

Noun

• Vomit.
• (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated.

Verb

• To vomit.
• To fall sick; to sicken.
• Alternate spelling of sic

Origin

• From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English sēoc, from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz (compare West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk sjuk), Danish syg, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-; compare Middle Irish socht, Old Armenian հիւծանիմ.
• Variant of sic, itself an alteration of seek.