sick headache
Americannoun
noun
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a headache accompanied by nausea
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a nontechnical name for migraine
Etymology
Origin of sick headache
First recorded in 1770–80
Example Sentences
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Like Middleton, he had physical symptoms, which he described as “a sick headache, a heavy dull feeling, until it is as if a band of steel were around my head.”
From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019
To study a sick headache systematically the University recently advertised for a victim.
From Time Magazine Archive
They never raise their voices to their children; they control by showing a "hurt" attitude, or by having a timely sick headache or fainting spell.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sick headache, that nuisance in households one of whose members suffers therefrom, last week received close study at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
From Time Magazine Archive
When she reached the narrow hallway she was reminded that her grandmother was home with a sick headache.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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