sickening
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sickening
- present participle and gerund of sicken
Adjective edit
sickening (comparative more sickening, superlative most sickening)
- Causing sickness or disgust.
- (LGBT slang) Amazing, fantastic.
- 2016, Juackie Huba, Shelly Stewart Kronbergs, Fiercely You: Be Fabulous and Confident by Thinking Like a Drag Queen[1], Berret-Koehler, →ISBN:
- Latrice lives every day by her mantra, “It’s OK to make mistakes. It’s OK to fall down. Get up, look sickening, and make them eat it!” Translation: rise above your downfalls in life, and always look amazing while dismissing the haters.
- 2017, Mayka Castellando, Heitor Leal Machado, “‘Please come to Brazil!’ The practices of RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Brazilian fandom”, in Niall Brennan, David Gudelunas, editors, RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture, Springer, →ISBN, page 172:
- Back with the seventh season next March 2nd, RuPaul’s Drag Race promises to gather fans and followers in front of the computer to watch the new competition to crown the most sickening queen.
Translations edit
causing sickness or disgust
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Noun edit
sickening (plural sickenings)
- The act of making somebody sick.
- 2010, Greg A. Marley, Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares:
- In the Northeast, one porcini look-alike has been implicated in several sickenings. It is Boletus huronensis, and though some guides call it edible, there have been a few cases of people becoming sickened following a meal of this mushroom.