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sickee

sickee noun: a person who is unwell.

Noun

sickee (plural sickees)

  1. (informal, rare) A person who is unwell.
    • Messy, those poor sickees staggered around the ship, easily identifiable from their sponged-off shirts 86 blouses and ashen complexions.2007, Ramon Carver, Best and Worst Travels, page 2
    • The main point is that once we view a person who is using drugs as being a “sickee,” we automatically fall into the trap of assuming and recommending treatment for him.2013, Stanley Einstein, Beyond Drugs, page 203

Forms of sickee

pluralsickees

Origin of sickee

Perhaps sick + -ee; perhaps a variant of sickie.

Questions about sickee

What does sickee mean?
Sickee means a person who is unwell.
What part of speech is sickee?
Sickee is a noun.
What is the plural of sickee?
The plural of sickee is sickees.

Words near sickee in the dictionary

  1. sickbed
  2. sickbeds
  3. sicke
  4. sicked
  5. sicked up
  6. sickee
  7. sickees
  8. Sickelmore
  9. Sickelmores
  10. sicken
  11. sickened

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