sicker

Meanings

Adjective

• Comparative form or more of sick.
• Certain.
• Secure, safe.

Adverb

• Certainly.
• Securely.

Verb

• To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.

Origin

• From Middle English siker, sikker, sykkere, secre, seccre, from Old English sēocra, equivalent to sick + -er.
• From Middle English siker, from Old English sicer, sicor, from Proto-West Germanic *sikur ("free, secure"), from Latin sēcūrus ("secure"). sure, and secure.
• From Middle English *sikeren (attested only as sikeriez), from Old English sicerian, from Proto-Germanic *sikrōną, from Proto-Germanic *sīką. Akin to sitch.