sicker

动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
美 /ˈsɪkɚ/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To percolate, trickle, or seep; to ooze, as water through a crack. dialectal,figuratively,intransitive,obsolete
    — No drop of water fell from the hot blue Or sickered from the skeleton of earth.
形容词 adj.
  1. comparative form of sick: more sick. comparative,form-of
  2. Certain. dialectal,obsolete
    — I'm sicker that he's not home.
  3. Secure, safe. dialectal,obsolete
    — To walk a sicker path
副词 adv.
  1. Certainly. dialectal,obsolete
  2. Securely. dialectal,obsolete

词形变化

siker alternative siccer alternative siccar alternative siker alternative siccer alternative siccar alternative sickers present,singular,third-person sickering participle,present sickered participle,past sickered past sigger alternative zigger alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
sickerhood sickerly sickerness

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English siker, sikker, sykkere, secre, seccre, from Old English sēocra (“sicker”), equivalent to sick + -er.
词源 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.
词源 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.
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