seek(1) - Hamely Tongue
Source: The Hamely Tongue: A Personal Record of Ulster-Scots in County Antrim
Author: James Fenton
Comments: ‘The Hamely Tongue’ has been widely acclaimed as the authoritative record of contemporary (surviving) Ulster-Scots in its heartland of County Antrim where James Fenton faithfully recorded his dictionary items among a network of other native speakers over a 30-year period. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from ‘Part One’ of the fourth edition of 2014 and includes over 3000 word entries. The book preliminaries, supplementary word lists and end matter have been excluded.
seek1 ~ adj. sick. seek as a doag very sick indeed; suffering from severe nausea. seekner an extreme, ‘sickening’ disappointment (Och a rail seekner — the divil tak them!). seek, sore and tired wearied; totally fed-up (seek, sore an tired o him an his compleenin). seek wae the naw-weels (a sceptical account of someone’s alleged illness). tak seek become ill. wud seekin a doag (of something utterly sickening or revolting). [cf. OE sēoc sick]
