sick headache

English

Noun

sick headache (plural sick headaches)

  1. (archaic) A migraine.
    • 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin:
      In very much this way Topsy’s training proceeded, for a year or two,—Miss Ophelia worrying herself, from day to day, with her, as a kind of chronic plague, to whose inflictions she became, in time, as accustomed, as persons sometimes do to the neuralgia or sick headache.
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