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Sickered vs Shickered - What's the difference?

sickered | shickered |

As verbs the difference between sickered and shickered

is that sickered is past tense of sicker while shickered is past tense of shicker.

As an adjective shickered is

drunk.

sickered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sicker)

    • sicker

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (sick)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * siker * siccer * siccar

    Adjective

  • (obsolete, outside, dialects) certain
  • (obsolete, outside, dialects) secure

    • Adverb

  • (obsolete, outside, dialects) certainly
  • (obsolete, outside, dialects) securely

    • Derived terms

    * sickerly * sickerhood

    Etymology 3

    Alternative forms

    * sigger * zigger

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (mining, UK, dialect) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    shickered

    English

    Alternative forms

    * shikkered

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shicker)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (AU, NZ, colloquial) Drunk.
  • * 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 458:
  • *:‘I'm shikkered'. I've never been so ' shikkered before. Do you know how I know? Because,’ he started giggling, ‘because I don't normally fucking swear.’
  • * 1994 , (Annamarie Jagose), In Translation , p. 13:
    • 'You're shickered', dear.' She is coolly diagnostic. 'You know what you're like when you're ' shickered .'