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sickener|ˈsɪk(ə)nə(r)|
[f. prec. + -er1.]
Something which nauseates or disgusts; an overdose or excess of anything; a sickening experience.
1809Malkin Gil Blas v. i. ⁋30 A fricassee, and..soup,..greasy with mutton fat, were enough to have given a sickener to the inveterate stomachs of a regiment. 1853W. Jerdan Autobiog. IV. xvi. 306 This was indeed a sickener to a careful biographer. 1882G. Macdonald Weighed & Wanting II. v. 51 A vision of the kind of creature he was capable of loving..would have been—to use a low but expressive phrase—a sickener to her.
b. Used of a shot or blow.
1834P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 54, I gave him such a sickener with the first barrel that I made him haul his wind. 1895Meredith Amazing Marriage I. xvi. 185 Kit fetched his man an ugly stroke on the round of the waist behind.., a sickener of a stroke, if dealt soundly. |