Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

throw a sickie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English

Syllables: throw a sick-ie
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To take a day off from work for ill health (either real or feigned).

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage; Slang

Example Sentences

"Hogie said, “Listen, I′m throwing a sickie. I don′t need to be there until opening day tomorrow. The staff don′t arrive till then anyway so as long as I'm in early I can′t see a problem.”"
"2005, Callum G. Brown, The Unconverted and the Conversion, Jan N. Bremmer, Wout J. van Bekkum, Arie L. Molendijk (editors), Paradigms, Poetics, and Politics of Conversion: Gender Relations in the Salvation Narrative in Britain: 1800-1960, page 190, It is like throwing a ‘sickie’ in Britain today — you can sign-off work on your own say-so for sick benefit for up to five days."
"Do not ‘throw a sickie’ just because things get tough. Experience shows that running away from your problems will not solve anything."

Usage

Inflected Forms

throws a sickie (present, singular) throwing a sickie (participle, present) threw a sickie (past) thrown a sickie (participle, past) chuck a sickie (alternative)

Synonyms

pull a sickie

Questions

What does throw a sickie mean?: To take a day off from work for ill health (either real or feigned).

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