schoolsick
schoolsick adjective: missing one's school and friends very much when away.
Adjective
schoolsick (comparative more schoolsick, superlative most schoolsick)
- Missing one's school and friends very much when away.
- In a Bible study at a National Deaf Church Conference (NDCC) in 2000, when asked if they ever got ‘homesick’, most of the Deaf people there responded that they never got homesick, but they did get ‘schoolsick’ in the holidays when away from the Deaf community of the residential schools.2007, Hannah Lewis, Deaf Liberation Theology, Ashgate Publishing, page 34
- ‘I can’t do anything right,’ said Ma as if it were his fault and, ‘If only the holidays were over and I was back at school,’ he told Will.
‘I’ve heard of people being homesick,’ said Will, ‘never schoolsick,’ but Doone could not smile.2013, Rumer Godden, Thursday's Children: A Virago Modern Classic, Hachette Digital
- Sick or tired of school.
- I believe that, if boys could be taught their mathematics, their reading, their business, in connection with the real thing, even those fellows who have abandoned the school because they were schoolsick would be awakened.1913 April, “Associations”, in Manual Training Magazine, volume XIV, number 4, page 368
Examples of schoolsick in a sentence
- On being asked what was wrong, I apparently wailed “I’m schoolsick!2020, Nina Ann Smith, It's Odd, The Things One Remembers, FriesenPress, page 17:
- Lewis (2016) described this feeling among students who were stuck at home during holidays as “schoolsick” as opposed to “homesick.” Deaf schools hold a special place in the hearts of many Deaf people.2023, Thomas K. Holcomb, “The Collision Between Culture and Disability”, in Introduction to Deaf Culture, 2nd edition, Oxford University...
Forms of schoolsick
| comparative | more schoolsick |
|---|---|
| superlative | most schoolsick |
Origin of schoolsick
From school + sick. Modeled after homesick.
Questions about schoolsick
- What does schoolsick mean?
- Schoolsick means missing one's school and friends very much when away.
- How do you use schoolsick in a sentence?
- On being asked what was wrong, I apparently wailed “I’m schoolsick!
- What part of speech is schoolsick?
- Schoolsick is an adjective.
Words near schoolsick in the dictionary
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