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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

请病假

Pronunciation / Transliteration: qǐng bìngjià

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sickie/ˈsɪk.i/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他今天请病假去海滩了。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A day off work taken by someone who claims to be ill, whether genuinely or falsely.

    "He decided to pull a sickie on Monday to go to the beach."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English adjective 'sick' combined with the diminutive suffix '-ie' or '-y', originating in British, Australian, and New Zealand English around the mid-20th century. Initially informal slang referring to a day off work claimed due to illness, it has evolved to frequently denote a fraudulent day off taken when an employee is actually well.

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