- a variation of sike.
syke
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Tho Troilus gan sorwfully to syke, 1170 Lest she be wrooth, him thoughte his herte deyde; And seyde, `Allas!
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
And with that thought he gan ful sore syke, And seyde, `Allas!
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
For Gawd's syke," he exclaimed, "don't yer know as 'ow we are goin' hout?
From Private Peat by Harold Reginald Peat
It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
Howbeit her majesty was so thoroughly jolted and unsettled by the “slapping pace” at which she travelled, that she had a bilious attack forthwith, and was “sore syke, and like to die.”
From Old Roads and New Roads by William Bodham Donne
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