sickee

sickee

English

Etymology

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

Noun

sickee (plural sickees)

1. (informal, rare) A person who is unwell.
   • 2007, Ramon Carver, Best and Worst Travels (page 2)

     Messy, those poor sickees staggered around the ship, easily identifiable from their sponged-off shirts 86 blouses and ashen complexions.

   • 2013, Stanley Einstein, Beyond Drugs (page 203)

     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.

   • 2019, Hadley Hoover, Botched Boundaries (LP) (page 138)

     Stomach flu can come on quickly, and no one wants to be around a sickee.