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Sickered vs Smickered - What's the difference?

sickered | smickered |

As verbs the difference between sickered and smickered

is that sickered is past tense of sicker while smickered is past tense of smicker.

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

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    smickered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (smicker)

    • smicker

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Elegant; fine; gay.
    • No, his deep-reaching spirit could not brook The fond addiction to such vanity; Regardful of his honour he forsook The smicker use of court-humanity. — John Ford.
  • Amorous; wanton.
  • Spruce; smart.
    • A smicker''' boy, a lither swain, Heigh ho, a '''smicker swain, That his love was wanton fain, [...] — Lodge.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To look amorously or wantonly; smirk.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)