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Trickle vs Sicker - What's the difference?

trickle | sicker |

As verbs the difference between trickle and sicker

is that trickle is to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously while sicker is (mining|uk|dialect) to percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.

As a noun trickle

is a very thin river.

As an adjective sicker is

(sick) or sicker can be (obsolete|outside|dialects) certain.

As an adverb sicker is

(obsolete|outside|dialects) certainly.

trickle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A very thin river.
  • The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle .
  • A very thin flow; the act of trickling .
  • The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

    Verb

    (trickl)
  • to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
  • The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
  • to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
  • Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
    The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
  • Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
  • To move or roll slowly.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Their only shot of the first period was a long-range strike from top-scorer Ebanks-Blake which trickled tamely wide.}}

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    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)

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