Talk:sicker

RFV discussion: December 2020

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sicker

Etymology 2 - safe, secure. There are three quotes there, none of which can be found online except in WT mirrors. an old version of the page had some dates on the quotes, which were removed later by @DCDuring. Also, there are various alternative spellings listed. With so much contradictory information, I think we need extra eyes looking at this. La más guay (talk) 01:16, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Can it be that this is also Scots, as seen in The Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland? (Crockett was a Scottish writer.)  --Lambiam 10:39, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

The eyes if the lexicographers of an early 20th century dictionary have examined sicker and its relatives (which include secure). See “sicker”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.. DCDuring (talk) 17:32, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 18:19, 13 December 2020 (UTC)