sickee
nounEtymology Perhaps sick + -ee; perhaps a variant of sickie.
- 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:
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- Stomach flu can come on quickly, and no one wants to be around a sickee.2019, Hadley Hoover, Botched Boundaries (LP), page 138: