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schoolsick en · ADJ

Etymology

From school + sick. Modeled after homesick.

Meanings

1. (slang, uncommon) Missing one's school and friends very much when away.
   • In a Bible study at a National Deaf Church Conference (NDCC) in 2000, when asked if they ever got ‘homesick’, most of the Deaf people there responded that they never got homesick, but they did get ‘schoolsick’ in the holidays when away from the Deaf community of the residential schools. 2007, Hannah Lewis, Deaf Liberation Theology, Ashgate Publishing, page 34:
   • But I did get my Matriculation, with honours in English, French, Latin and History, and in the process I spent quite simply two of the happiest years of my young life. […] My mother liked to tell — though I cannot remember the incident — that at the beginning of the holidays following my second term she found me weeping in my room. On being asked what was wrong, I apparently wailed “I’m schoolsick! Nothing’s happening here!”. 2020, Nina Ann Smith, It's Odd, The Things One Remembers, FriesenPress, page 17:
   • Lewis (2016) described this feeling among students who were stuck at home during holidays as “schoolsick” as opposed to “homesick.” Deaf schools hold a special place in the hearts of many Deaf people. 2023, Thomas K. Holcomb, “The Collision Between Culture and Disability”, in Introduction to Deaf Culture, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, page 361:
   • ‘I can’t do anything right,’ said Ma as if it were his fault and, ‘If only the holidays were over and I was back at school,’ he told Will. ‘I’ve heard of people being homesick,’ said Will, ‘never schoolsick,’ but Doone could not smile. 2013, Rumer Godden, Thursday's Children: A Virago Modern Classic, Hachette Digital:
2. (slang, uncommon) Sick or tired of school.
   • I believe that, if boys could be taught their mathematics, their reading, their business, in connection with the real thing, even those fellows who have abandoned the school because they were schoolsick would be awakened. 1913 April 14, “Associations”, in Manual Training Magazine, volume XIV, number 4, page 368:

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