lamesick, adjective
- Forms:
- Also lamsick.
- Origin:
- Calqued on South African Dutch lamziek.
obs., Pathology
Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with lamsiekte.
1823 W.W. Bird State of Cape of G.H. 98Every boer, having a farm of usual extent, possesses many yokes; but in most farms they require change of pasture for a few months every year, without which they become lamziek (lame-sick), or paralytic in all their limbs.
1911 J.F. Pentz in Farmer’s Weekly 11 Oct. 158I have heard of a ‘gallsick’ microbe, but not of a ‘lam-sick’ microbe.
Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with lamsiekte.
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