subs. (common).—Too much (even of a good thing); a cause of disgust. Cf. BELLYFUL.

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  1809.  MALKIN, Gil Blas [ROUTLEDGE], 180. Enough to have given a SICKENER to the inveterate stomachs of a regiment.

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  1818.  P. EGAN, Boxiana, I. 267. Ward’s friends were now in high spirits, and the betting went forwards, as it was thought that Dan had received rather a SICKENER.

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  1827.  R. B. PEAKE, Comfortable Lodgings, i. 2. I took a favourable opportunity to insult him: this morning I gave him a SICKENER.

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  1884.  W. C. RUSSELL, Jack’s Courtship, xxxii. But sometimes you will get a dreary SICKENER betwixt the Channel and the parallel where the steady breeze is picked up.

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  1889.  R. L. STEVENSON, Master of Ballantrae, ii. It was plain this lucky shot had given them a SICKENER of their trade.

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