different between licker vs wicker

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?k?/
• Homophone: liquor
• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English likkere, lykkare, equivalent to lick +? -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Läkker, Dutch likker, German Low German Licker, German Lecker.

Noun

licker (plural lickers)

1. Someone or something that licks.

Derived terms

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Etymology 2

See liquor.

Noun

licker (uncountable)

1. Eye dialect spelling of liquor.

Anagrams

• Rickel, ickler, relick, rickle

English

Etymology

From Middle English wiker, cognate with Swedish vikker (“willow”), Old Norse veikr (“weak”), English weak.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?k?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?k?(r)
• (General American) enPR: w?k??r, IPA^(key): /?w?k?/
• Homophone: whicker (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
• Homophone: Wicca (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

wicker (countable and uncountable, plural wickers)

1. A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture
2. Wickerwork.

Derived terms

• wickerwork
• rewicker
• wicker man

Translations

See also

• basket
• cradle
• rattan

Adjective

wicker (not comparable)

1. Made of wickerwork.

Translations

Further reading

• wicker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Adjective

wicker

1. comparative degree of wikke