different between rick vs mick

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k/

  Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English *rykke, from Old English hrycce (“rick, heap, pile”), cognate with Scots ruk (“rick”), Norwegian ruka (“rick, haystack”). Related also to Old English hr?ac (“rick, stack”), from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap”). Further relations: Dutch rook, Norwegian rauk, Swedish rök, Icelandic hraukur.

Alternative forms

• ruck

Noun

rick (plural ricks)

1. Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.

   • There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive ricks, rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows; […].
2. (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.

Derived terms

• rickburner

Translations

Verb

rick (third-person singular simple present ricks, present participle ricking, simple past and past participle ricked)

1. To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.

Etymology 2

From earlier wrick, from Middle English wricken, wrikken (“to move back and forth”), probably from Middle Dutch *verwricken or Middle Low German vorwricken. Cognate with West Frisian wrikke, wrikje, Dutch wrikken, Low German wricken, German wricken, Danish vrikke, Swedish vricka.

Verb

rick (third-person singular simple present ricks, present participle ricking, simple past and past participle ricked)

1. To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.

Etymology 3

Abbreviated form from recruit.

Noun

rick (plural ricks)

1. (military, derogatory and demeaning) A brand new (naive) boot camp inductee.

   No turning back now rick, you are the property of the US government now.

Anagrams

• crik

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From a common Irish name Michael

Noun

mick (plural micks)

1. (offensive slang) an Irishman
2. (offensive slang) A Catholic, particularly of Irish descent.

Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of Mickey Mouse.

Adjective

mick (comparative more mick, superlative most mick)

1. (slang) Easy.

   Geology is so mick - half the jocks are in it.

Swedish

Noun

mick c

1. mike; short form for mikrofon

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