Talk:get sick

RFD — kept

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get sick

Edit: To become ill. Per [[get fill-in-the-blank]]. DAVilla 17:10, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

"To become ill" is almost idiomatic. Keep? --Connel MacKenzie 05:14, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

This can also mean "to vomit." So can "be sick," of course, but I don't think "sick" by itself normally has this meaning. -- Visviva 15:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm okay with that definition. Changed to rfd-sense. DAVilla 07:07, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Wow it means "vomit"? Just in American English, right? Kappa 01:45, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I think it's regional; I've heard it, and I'd understand it, but I'd never use it, and I don't think most Midwesterners would. (Of course, ~30–40% of the time I say on Wiktionary that a word/sense/construction doesn't exist in my region, it's less than a month or two before I hear someone use it in real life, so who knows?) —Ruakh_TALK 02:42, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Keep, to contrast with "vomit" sense. DCDuring TALK 11:03, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Keep per DCDuring.—msh210℠ 21:09, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Kept.--Jusjih 20:54, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

RFD discussion: November–December 2020

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SOP, including the euphemistic meaning of "vomit". Benwing2 (talk) 23:59, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

• Keep. -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 10:39, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
• As far as the sense "To become sick" is concerned, we can also look at get ill, get cold, get hungry, get tired, get angry, get annoyed, get bored, get dizzy, get dirty, get filthy, get muddy, get lonely, get upset etc. etc., need I go on, i.e. too many to be individually idiomatic, so Delete, and we can give more examples of popular collocations in the usexes at get if necessary. I don't really understand/recognise sense #2, so I find it hard to comment on that. Mihia (talk) 18:30, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Keep for the second sense. It's decidedly non-transparent. A person who vomits is usually already sick. Note that I've made an RFV for sick.__Gamren (talk) 08:50, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

I would not say "I got sick all over this guy" (the present usex). I would say "I was sick all over this guy". I wonder if this is an AmE usage. Mihia (talk) 12:04, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

No, because American English doesn't use "be sick" or "get sick" to mean "vomit". They only mean "be ill" and "get ill" and aren't something you can do all over someone. —Mahāgaja · talk 12:26, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Oh, right, well then I wonder who says "I got sick all over this guy". Mihia (talk) 02:21, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

RFD kept. Sense #1 has been converted into an &lit. Since several presumed native speakers have said they didn't know this term, it is probably regional, so a label would be good.__Gamren (talk) 14:56, 8 December 2020 (UTC)