Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
comparative form of sick: more sick.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: comparative, form-of
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adj
Certain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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adj
Secure, safe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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adv
Certainly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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adv
Securely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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verb
To percolate, trickle, or seep; to ooze, as water through a crack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, figuratively, intransitive, obsolete
Qualifier: literal
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History
Inherited from Middle English siker, sikker, sykkere, secre, seccre, from Old English sēocra (“sicker”), equivalent to sick + -er.
From Middle English siker, from Old English sicer, sicor, from Proto-West Germanic *sikur (“free, secure”), from Latin sēcūrus (“secure”, literally “without care”). Doublet of sure and secure.
Inherited from Middle English *sikeren (attested only as sikeriez (“(it) trickles, (it) leaks, (it) oozes”)), from Old English sicerian (“to ooze, seep”), from Proto-West Germanic *sikarōn, from Proto-Germanic *sikarōną (“to trickle”), from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow running water”). Cognate with German Low German sickern (“to seep”), German sickern (“to seep, trickle”). Akin also to English sitch.
