# sicker
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈsɪkɚ/
* Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: sic‧ker

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English siker, sikker, sykkere, secre, seccre, from Old English sēocra (“sicker”), equivalent to sick +‎ -er.

#### Adjective

sicker
* comparative form of sick: more sick.

### Etymology 2

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.

#### Alternative forms

* siker, siccer, siccar

#### Adjective

sicker (obsolete outside dialects)
* Certain.
    I'm sicker that he's not home.
* Secure, safe.
    To walk a sicker path
** 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Ægloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 36, recto:But ſicker ſo it is, as the bꝛight ſtarre / Seemeth ay greater, when it is farre:
** 1880, L.B. Walford, “Dick Netherby”, in Good Words‎, volume 22, Alexander Strahan and Company, page 774:And here was we made sicker than he was wi' you […]
** 1896, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, chapter XVII, in The Raiders: Being Some Passages in the Life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt‎, Macmillan and Company, page 125:I'm as great on the side o' the law as it's siccar to be in thae uncertain times.

#### Adverb

sicker (obsolete outside dialects)
* Certainly.
* Securely.

#### Derived terms

* sickerhood
* sickerly
* sickerness

### Etymology 3

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.

#### Alternative forms

* sigger, zigger

#### Verb

sicker (third-person singular simple present sickers, present participle sickering, simple past and past participle sickered)
* (intransitive, literal, figurative) To percolate, trickle, or seep; to ooze, as water through a crack.
** 1917, Gerhart Hauptmann, Ludwig Lewisohn, The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, volume 7, page 185:No drop of water fell from the hot blue Or sickered from the skeleton of earth.
** 1926, Jakob Wassermann, Wedlock, volume 10, page 217:This cause had sickered into his soul; it had been branded upon his forehead somehow, by some hand; he knew not how nor by whom.
** 1943, Acta minerologica, petrographica, volumes 1-11, page 17:The solution steadily sickered through the debris and the sampling of the solutions could be carried out without taking the equipment into pieces.

### References

* “sicker”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sicker”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “sicker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Reicks, Rickes, Riecks, crikes, ickers, scrike

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

sicker
* inflection of sickern:
** first-person singular present
** singular imperative

## Middle English
### Adjective

sicker
* Alternative form of siker

### Adverb

sicker
* Alternative form of siker