obs. and dial. forms of PHTHISIC, -AL. Hence Tis(s)icking a. = PHTHISICKY; † Tisickness, phthisic or asthmatic quality.
1533. Elyot, Cast. Helthe (1539), 82. Tisiknesse or shortnesse of breth.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Tissick,… a tickling faint cough; called also a ‘tissicky cough.’
1888. Doughty, Arabia Deserta, II. 521. The Sherif visited Beyrût some years ago … for the health of a tisical son.
1890. Blackw. Mag., CXLVIII. 463/2. Snipe hummed and bleated out a tissicking music.
1904. in Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v. Tissick, etc.
