Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
phthisic .
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Examples
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Mrs. Pedlar was keeping her bed for the moment with a tissick to the tubes, and when the man got there he found Milly busy over the ancient woman's supper.
The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911
Gammerstang commented on the word tissick
(noun) - A tickling faint cough; called also a "tissicky cough." --Rev. Robert Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830
April 22, 2018