2015年1月15日 · In AmE the phrasing "started to feel sick FROM Tuesday afternoon" would either be taken to mean he (later) felt sick from (whatever happened on) Tuesday afternoon, or it …

2017年7月5日 · Somewhat related is sympathetic illness: if knowing another person is ill causes him to actually feel ill himself. Seen for example in the phrase sympathetic vomiting: he sees …

2011年3月20日 · The origin of sick is from the old Germanic verb: siech which means to have a disease. It was used in Middle High German and refers to people who had leprosy. These …

@tchrist: I didn't know that. Well, to be honest I've never really thought about it that way - if you're sick of someone/something, you're fed up with it. If you're just sick (or sick with something), …

2015年1月10日 · If this Ngram is anything to go by, get sick is more common than fall ill by a long way—but until around 1850, fall sick was actually the most common of the lot, while get ill has …

2016年12月20日 · "I am starting to feel sick." It's accurate, it says that you feel the signs of oncoming sickness but are not yet incapacitated by fever, pain, nausea, and so on. In …

2019年7月1日 · The advantage of the former meaning, is that one can ask »føler du dig rask?« (approx. 'do you feel not sick?'). I wonder if there is a word in English to convey the same …

2017年4月7日 · Sick to your stomach In both British and American English, having a literal illness would be expressed as having food poisoning or a stomachache or heartburn or ulcer &c. You …

2018年4月30日 · It's one type of somatoform disorder. a group of disorders in which physical symptoms suggesting physical disorders for which there are no demonstrable organic findings …

This question ought to be reopened, because the current answers are basically wrong. Whether or not other usage in youth culture pre-dates it, sick became slang for pretty much the …