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sickie|ˈsɪkɪ|
Also sicky.
[f. sick a. and n. + -ie.]
1. Austral. and N.Z. colloq. A day's sick leave, usu. taken without sufficient medical reason.
1953T. A. G. Hungerford Riverslake 11 Now and then there would be one or more off on a sickie—they changed their jobs so frequently that they never let their sick leave accumulate. 1959D. Hewett Bobbin Up 81 She wished she could take a sickie tomorrer, but it was payday. 1969Telegraph (Brisbane) 28 Oct. 8/2 If we don't feel just right we don't go up. We have a ‘sickie’ and everyone understands. 1974N.Z. Woman's Weekly 8 July 5/3 Because of the nature of the work it was impossible to plan time off for social functions at short notice. As a result a small percentage of cabin crew staff resorted to ‘sickies’. 1981Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 5 Sept. 5/2 A part-time fireman's sense of duty cost him his job after he answered an emergency call when he was taking a ‘sickie’ from work.
2. N. Amer. slang. One who is mentally ill or perverted. Also attrib. or as adj.
1973Ottawa Jrnl. 1 Aug. 34/2, I hope she gets professional help because these sickies usually get worse, not better. 1974P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird (1975) x. 135 ‘Shall I..make it clear..I'm a sickie?’ ‘No!..this—ailment of yours..it's an expression of some deep⁓seated conflict.’ 1975Chronicle-Herald (Halifax, N.S.) 2 Aug. 26/2 Dade County's entire homicide squad was mobilized..to search for a ‘sickie’ who murdered two attractive young women. 1977Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. vii. 3/2 A sickie Army lieutenant who tries to run off with the reporter's daughter. |