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sicker.

Certain.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈsɪkɚ/General-American
  1. Certain.

    I'm sicker that he's not home.
  2. Secure; safe.

    To walk a sicker path
Where this word comes from

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.

adv/ˈsɪkɚ/General-American
  1. Certainly.

  2. Securely.

Where this word comes from

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.

verb/ˈsɪkɚ/General-American
  1. To percolate, trickle, or seep; to ooze, as water through a crack.

    figuratively · intransitive
Where this word comes from

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.

adj/ˈsɪkɚ/General-American
  1. comparative form of sick: more sick.

    comparative · form-of
Where this word comes from

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

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