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home-sick, homesick, a.|ˈhəʊmsɪk|
[f. home n. 15 j + sick a.: after next.]
Depressed in consequence of a longing for home during absence from it; affected with homesickness.
c1798[see homesickness]. 1827Keble Chr. Y. Prayer at Sea iii, The homesick seaman. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxv. V. 287 A servant of the true God..banished, homesick, and living on the bounty of strangers. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset II. lix. 168, I am homesick. I'm not accustomed to be away from mamma for so long. |