stericks
vulgar aphetic form of hysterics (see hysteric B. 3).
| 1765 Foote Commissary iii. (1782) 64 Fun. Fye upon you! you have thrown the old gentlewoman into the stericks. 1859 C. Bray Let. 26 June in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1954) III. 94 We had Sara in strong stericks all the way home, because she had missed her final chance of explanation and advice from you. |