sicking
SaySIK-ing/ˈsɪkɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of sick.
The rancher was sicking his dogs on the coyotes circling the herd.
Sicking the terriers on the rats kept the barn mostly clear.
Note
One spelling carries several verbs. The dogs-on-coyotes use is sick as a rare variant of sic, 'to set upon', and you can recognize it by its pattern: sicking an animal on a target. In British and Australian colloquial speech the same form means vomiting, and it can also mean falling ill, much like sickening. When on and a target follow, it is the attack sense. Without them, read it as illness.
sicking is a form of sick
sick, verb: To fall ill; to begin to suffer from disease. Full entry
- Spelling
- sick → sicking: add -ing
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