different between bike vs fike

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?k/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [b??k]
• Rhymes: -a?k

Etymology 1

From bicycle, by shortening, and possibly alteration. Attested from 1882.

One explanation for the pronunciation is that bicycle is parsed to bi(cy)c(le). An alternative explanation is that bicycle is shortened to bic(ycle), and the terminal [s] is converted to a [k] because there is an underlying underspecified [k]/[s] sound, which is softened to [s] in bicycle but retained as [k] in bike; compare the letter ‘c’ (used for [k]/[s]).

Noun

bike (plural bikes)

1. Clipping of bicycle.
2. Clipping of motorbike.
3. (slang, derogatory) Ellipsis of village bike

   Synonyms: slapper, slag

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Italian: bike f
• ? Norman: bike f

Translations

See also

• trike

Further reading

• bike on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Verb

bike (third-person singular simple present bikes, present participle biking, simple past and past participle biked)

1. To ride a bike.

2. To travel by bike.

3. (transitive) To transport by bicycle

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bike, byke (“a nest of wild bees or wasps", also "honeycomb”). Of Unknown origin. Perhaps a back-formation of Middle English *bykere (“beekeeper”), from Old English b?ocere (“beekeeper”); or from Old English *b?c a byform of Old English b?c (“belly; vessel; container”). Compare also Old Norse bý (“bee”).

Noun

bike (plural bikes)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
   • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 107:

     he stood for a minute talking to them about their job of gathering cones, and telling them a story about a tree he'd once climbed which had a wasp's byke in it unbeknown to him.

2. (chiefly Scotland, by extension, collective) A crowd of people.

Anagrams

• Beki, kibe

Basque

Etymology

From Latin pix.

Noun

bike inan

1. pitch

Farefare

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bí.ké/

Verb

bike

1. shake, move

   Mam yet? m yõk? la foote, z? s?m da bike

   I'm going to take a photo, keep still, and do not move

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English bike.

Noun

bike f (invariable)

1. motorbike, motorcycle

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English bike.

Noun

bike f (plural bikes)

1. (Jersey) bicycle

Derived terms

Northern Kurdish

Verb

bike

1. third-person singular future of kirin

Slovene

Noun

bike

1. accusative plural of bik

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English fiken (“to feign, dissemble, flatter”), from Old English fician (“to wheedle, flatter”) (also found in compound befician (“to deceive”)), from Proto-Germanic *fik?n? (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *pey?- (“ill-meaning, evil-minded, treacherous, hostile, bad”). Related to Old English ?efic (“fraud, deceit, deception”), Old English f?cen (“deceit, fraud, treachery, sin, evil, crime, blemish, fault”), Middle High German veichen (“dissembling, deceit, fraud”), Latin piget (“it irks, it annoys”).

Verb

fike (third-person singular simple present fikes, present participle fiking, simple past and past participle fiked)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fiken, fyken (“to fidget, move about restlessly, hasten away”), from Old Norse fíkjast (“to be eager or restless”), from fíka (“to climb, move”). Cognate with Scots fyke (“to move about restlessly, fidget, itch”), Norwegian fika (“to strive, take trouble”), Icelandic fikinn (“eager, greedy”). Related to fig and fidget.

Alternative forms

• fick
• fyke (Scotland)

Verb

fike (third-person singular simple present fikes, present participle fiking, simple past and past participle fiked)

1. (intransitive) To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
2. (transitive) To give trouble to; vex; perplex.

Noun

fike (plural fikes)

1. Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.
2. (Britain dialectal) Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.

Derived terms

• fikery
• fiky

Etymology 3

From Middle English fike, from Old English f?c (“fig, fig-tree, fig-disease, venereal ulcer, hemorrhoids”), from Proto-Germanic *f?kaz, *f?g? (“fig”), from Latin f?cus, f?ca (“fig, fig-tree”). Cognate with Dutch vijg (“fig”), German Feige (“fig”), Swedish fikon (“fig”), Icelandic fikja (“ficus”). More at fig.

Noun

fike (plural fikes)

1. (obsolete) A fig.
2. (Britain dialectal) A sore place on the foot.

Anagrams

• Kief, kief, kife

Ese

Noun

fike

1. chewing gum

Middle English

Noun

fike

1. Alternative form of fyke

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fíka, fíkja, from Latin ficus. Akin to English fig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²fi?k?/

Noun

fike f (definite singular fika, indefinite plural fiker, definite plural fikene)

1. a fig

Synonyms

• fiken

References

• “fike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.