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.