sicc
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
sicc (comparative more sicc, superlative most sicc)
- Eye dialect spelling of sick (“in poor health; ill”).
- 2018 October 31, ☃️Nick Holmes⚡️‼️ (@TheNHolmes0), “☃️Nick Holmes⚡️‼️ on Twitter”, in Twitter[1], archived from the original on 6 November 2018:
- Being sicc in college is so trash😂 where my momma at😭
Etymology 2
See sic.
Verb
sicc
- (rare) Alternative spelling of sic (“set upon”).
Anagrams
Hungarian
Etymology
An onomatopoeia. Compare Serbo-Croatian ши̏ц, šȉc, Romanian șiț.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈʃit͡sː]
- Hyphenation: sicc
- Rhymes: -it͡sː
Interjection
sicc
- shoo! (an exclamation used to drive away cats)
Derived terms
Further reading
- sicc in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
Middle Irish
Alternative forms
- secc (feminine ā-stem)
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɕik/
Noun
sicc m (genitive seca)
Descendants
- Irish: sioc
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| sicc | ṡicc | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sicc, secc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language