tissick

plural tissicks

1. countablenonstandarduncountableNonstandard form of phthisic.

   So careless of hisself as a child. ' Tis a bit of a tissick on the lungs, I reckon.

   1906, The Fortnightly, page 1179

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   “Just a bit o' a tissick 'pon the chest,” said his father, after the child had ailed two days. “He'll be better come to-morrow if you keeps en in by the fire.” But that night poor Timmy grew worse, and, after daylight had gone, fear came upon his ...

   1897, The New Review, page 120

   He's ill with a tissick in his chest — got it cutting peat, my mother says. And he must see you this very day. Cussing Duchy, he is, and damning me and other good characters.

   1920, Eden Phillpotts, Miser's Money, page 52