sickener
/ˈsɪk(ə)nə
/noun
1 informal Something which causes disgust or severe disappointment: the goal was a real sickener for a Linfield defence...
- We have done wonders to get to host the conference and it would be a real sickener if financial problems wreck all the hard work.
- Mr Rothwell added: ‘It's a real sickener and I would appeal to the thieves to at least give us back the things which are clearly of no use to them, or to anyone else.’
- We thought we had a great chance after that, of winning Leinster, but Louth beat us by a point and that was a real sickener.
2 (the sickener) A poisonous toadstool with a red cap and a white or cream-coloured stem and gills, found in both Eurasia and North America.
- Genus Russula, family Russulaceae, class Hymenomycetes, in particular R. emetica.
