different between bike vs sicko

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

Etymology

sick +? -o (“person with characteristic”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?k??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?ko?/
• Rhymes: -?k??

Noun

sicko (plural sickos or sickoes)

1. (derogatory, slang) A person with unpleasant tastes, views or habits.
   • 1986 June 9, David Denby, Movies: Poison, New York, page 130,

     But in fact, the murders have been committed by an army of sickos, a phalanx of wild-eyed droolers led by a monster goon with a concrete jaw and a Neanderthal brow.

   • 1997, Shannon Bell, Chapter 5: On ne peut pas voir l?image [The image cannot be seen], Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell, Becki L. Ross, Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision, page 231,

     We can?t say that it is our responses of horror and revulsion that are upsetting to the youth; therefore, those attracted to them are deviants, sickos, who should be cured/punished like the homosexuals of the forties and fifties.

   • 2009, Stuart E. Weisberg, Barney Frank: The Story of America?s Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman, page 372,

     The conservative Boston Herald, which had earlier described the revelations about Barney?s two-year relationship with a male prostitute as “one of the most tawdry episodes in modern Massachusetts politics” and had run a story by the columnist Howie Carr calling Frank “a sicko who happens to be a pol,” urged him to resign his house seat.

2. (US, Canada, slang) A mentally ill person.
3. A physically ill person.

Usage notes

The plural form sickoes is somewhat rare.

Synonyms

• (day taken off work due to illness): sick day, sickie (slang)
• (person with unpleasant tastes, views or habits): weirdo

Translations

Adjective

sicko (comparative more sicko, superlative most sicko)

1. Characterized by depraved tastes or habits; deviant.
   • 1996, Mark Richard Zubro, Another Dead Teenager: A Paul Turner Mystery, St. Martin's Griffin (?ISBN):

     “Your kid isn't nuts.” “Ever had one of his broccoli-and-asparagus omelets? Kid eats another vegetable, I'm going to ram a carrot down his throat until he gags.” “Most parents would kill for a kid like yours. Come on, admit it. This kid was sicko.”

   • 1998, Daniel Hecht, Skull Session, New York : Viking

     The damage level was sicko, even Eddy had been taken aback when they'd first gone inside, scared but trying to hide it. What was Eddy doing? "One last thing I wanna get," he'd said, and then disappeared back into the house. Now he was ...

   • 2012, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children, Yale University Press (?ISBN), page 73:

     “I didn't want that pediatrician to touch me, he was, like, a very weird guy, very sicko.” He took pictures of her genitals, and she later wondered whether this was for child pornography.

Anagrams

• Kocis