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sickish

[ sik-ish ]

adjective

  1. somewhat sick or ill.
  2. somewhat sickening or nauseating.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • i· adverb
  • i·Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sickish1

First recorded in 1575–85; sick 1 + -ish 1
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His food company grew from the necessity to feed himself in a way that doesn’t make him sluggish or sickish in the water but clear and optimal.

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“On some of the streets the stench — sweet and sickish from dead bodies — is overwhelming,” he wrote.

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He could smell the sweet and now sickish odor of rum about himself.

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I enter a small room with a heavy desk, a yellow light shining sickishly on the dark green walls.

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I do not care for the Petunia close at hand on account of its sickish odor.

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