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Sickish

Definition: Sickish

Sickish

Adjective

1. Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sickish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1882. (references)


Synonyms: Sickish

Synonyms: nauseated (adj), queasy (adj), sick (adj). (additional references)

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Use in Literature: Sickish

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

It only made you feel a little sickish on account of the smell of the wine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sickish

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sickish

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sickish

Language Translations for "sickish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

kränklich (abnormal, ailing, dicky, ill, peaky, sickly, tottering, unhealthy, valetudinarian, weakly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ναυτιών (qualmish, queasy, seasick), λιγάκι άρρωστοσ, αηδιάζων (disgusted), αδιάθετοσ (indisposed, queer, unwell). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kissé émelyeg (to feel sickish), kavarog a gyomra (to feel nauseated, to feel queasy, to feel sickish), hányingere van (to feel nauseated, to feel queasy, to feel sick, to feel sickish, to feel squeamish, to heave one's gorge, to keck, to nauseate, to retch, to turn sick), enyhe hányingere van (to feel sickish), émelyeg (be squeamish, retch, to feel queasy, to feel sick, to feel sickish, to feel squeamish, to gag, to heave one's gorge, to nauseate, to retch, to turn sick, wamble). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ickishsay

   

Russian 

  

тошнотворный (nauseous, queasy, sickly). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

enfermizo (delicate, infirm, sick, sickly, unhealthy, weakling), empalagoso (cloying, fulsome, luscious, lush, mawkish, oily, saccharine, sickly, sickly sweet). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

хворий (aching, ailing, case, dicky, diseased, ill, invalid, pasty, poorly, sick, sickly, sore, stricken), нудотний (emetic, luscious, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, qualmish, queasy, routine, sickly, treacly). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sickish

Derivations

Words beginning with "sickish": sickishly, sickishness, sickishnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sickish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dickish, nicish, pickish, siccus, sicki, sickies, sickos, siksi, sixish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sickish"

Words rhyming with "sickish" (pronounced 'Sick"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Sickish

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-i-i-k-s-s"

-2 letters: hicks, sicks.

-3 letters: chis, hick, hiss, ichs, khis, kiss, sick, sics, skis.

-4 letters: chi, cis, hic, his, ich, ick, khi, sic, sis, ski.

-5 letters: hi, is, sh, si.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-i-i-k-s-s"
 

+2 letters: sickishly.

 

+4 letters: jinrickshas, nightsticks, sickishness, sticktights.

 

+5 letters: chickenshits, ticklishness, trickishness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sickish


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 69 63 6B 69 73 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ..    -.-.    -.-    ..    ...    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101001 01100011 01101011 01101001 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#105 &#99 &#107 &#105 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0069 0063 006B 0069 0073 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53756977758574

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Expressions: Internet 		5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams 		9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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