What is "sick"

Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se['o]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj?kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]

1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.

   Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever.
   --Mark i. 30.

   Behold them that are sick with famine.
   --Jer. xiv. 18.

2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.

3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.

   He was not so sick of his master as of his work.
   --L'Estrange.

4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.

   So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings.
   --Fuller.

   Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital.

   Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick.

   Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war.

   Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea.

   Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick.

   Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness.

   Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]

   Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

Sick \Sick\, n. Sickness. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Sick \Sick\, v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.]
--Shak.

"to chase, set upon" (as in command sick him!), 1845, dialectal variant of seek. Used as an imperative to incite a dog to attack a person or animal; hence "cause to pursue." Related: Sicked; sicking.

"unwell," Old English seoc "ill, diseased, feeble, weak; corrupt; sad, troubled, deeply affected," from Proto-Germanic *seukaz, of uncertain origin. The general Germanic word (Old Norse sjukr, Danish syg, Old Saxon siok, Old Frisian siak, Middle Dutch siec, Dutch ziek, Old High German sioh, Gothic siuks "sick, ill"), but in German and Dutch displaced by krank "weak, slim," probably originally with a sense of "twisted, bent" (see crank (n.)).\n

\nRestricted meaning "having an inclination to vomit, affected with nausea" is from 1610s; sense of "tired or weary (of something), disgusted from satiety" is from 1590s; phrase sick and tired of is attested from 1783. Meaning "mentally twisted" in modern colloquial use is from 1955, a revival of the word in this sense from 1550s (sense of "spiritually or morally corrupt" was in Old English, which also had seocmod "infirm of mind"); sick joke is from 1958.

"those who are sick," Old English seoce, from sick (adj).

Etymology 1

1. 1 Having an urge to vomit. 2 (context chiefly American English) In poor health. n. 1 Sick people in general as a group. 2 (context colloquial English) vomit. v

2. 1 To vomit. 2 (context obsolete intransitive English) To fall sick; to sicken. Etymology 2

   vb. (context rare English) (alternative spelling of sic English)

1. adj. not in good physical or mental health; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" [syn: ill] [ant: well]

2. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated, queasy, sickish]

3. affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged]

4. having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick"; "tired of the noise and smoke" [syn: disgusted, fed up(p), sick(p), sick of(p), tired of(p)]

v. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]

n. people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"

"Sick" was the eleventh episode of British sitcom The Young Ones. It was written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer, and directed by Paul Jackson. It was first aired on BBC2 on 12 June 1984. The episode features the song " Our House", performed by Madness, the only band to appear on the show twice.

Sick may refer to:

• Having a disease (physical or mental)
• Vomiting (literal or metaphorical)

Sick is the second studio album by Sow released in 1998. This album spawned no singles. At this time Sow comprises Anna Wildsmith with "Boys", where the Boys are Raymond Watts, Euphonic, Sascha Konietzko, Hoppy Kamiyama & Optical 8, Martin King, and Günter Schulz.

Sick is the fourth album by French metal band Massacra. It introduces a notable change in the musical direction, including mid-paced thrash and groove elements. It was released in 1994.

Sick was a satirical-humor magazine published from 1960 to 1980, lasting 134 issues. It was created by comic-book writer-artist Joe Simon, who also edited the title until the late 1960s. Sick was published by Crestwood Publications until issue #62 (1968), when it was taken over by Hewfred Publications. Charlton Comics took over publishing the magazine in 1976 with issue #109.

Sick 's original mascot was a blank-faced little physician. He was later replaced by a mascot named Huckleberry Fink, whose design was similar to that of Mad 's Alfred E. Neuman, and whose motto, instead of Neuman's "What, me worry?", was "Why Try Harder?"

Its contributors included Mad regulars Angelo Torres and Jack Davis, as well as Howard Cruse, Arnold Drake, Ernie Schroeder, Washington correspondent Jim Atkins and B.K. Taylor. Its art director from 1961 until his death in 1967 was the noted comic-book artist Bob Powell.

In his book, American Comic Book Chronicles 1960–1964, comic book historian John Wells comments:

"Where Cracked was content as a mimic, Sick took its title as a mission statement. Published by Crestwood Publications (whose color comics imprint was Prize Comics), issue #1 (September 1960) declared itself “a grim collection of revolting humor.” Financed by Teddy Epstein and packaged by industry legend Joe Simon, the magazine was built on the more tasteless, politically incorrect humor dispensed by stand-up comics like the controversial Lenny Bruce. The comedian is said to have bought 100 copies of any issue of ‘’Sick’’ featuring excerpts on his routines that he then mailed to prospective clients. Discussing Sick #1, Simon wrote:

'I have found a humor writer named Dee Caruso who had been writing comedy routines and one-liners for some of the leading theatrical comic personalities. Dee got some of his collaborators together and they wrote the entire book as if it were a routine for a stand-up comedian such as Don Adams or Joey Bishop, both of whom had bought Dee’s material. Transforming these ‘wordy’ routines to eye-catching graphics was a problem but our artists got into the spirit and did well.'”

"Sick" is the first single from Adelitas Way's second studio album, Home School Valedictorian, released on March 11, 2011.It is the band's third single in overall. This the band's first single to hit the ''Billboard Alternative Rock Song chart reaching No. 29 and staying on the chart for 14 weeks. The song reached No. 2 on the U.S Mainstream Rock chart.

"Sick" is the second episode of the third season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC in the United States on October 21, 2012.

Sick EP is the debut extended play by American metalcore band Beartooth and is produced by Caleb Shomo formerly of the band Attack Attack! who sang and recorded all the instruments used on the album. It was released on July 26, 2013 through Red Bull Records for free download.

"Sick" is a 2014 song by the singer CeCe Peniston, released as a digital single through Spectra Music Group on November 4, 2014. The gospel-soaked R&B work features contributions by Paris Toon along with his musical body self-titled as Mother's Favorite Child.