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wick
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English weke, wicke (“wick”), from Old English w?oce (“wick”), from Proto-Germanic *weuk? (“flax bundle, wick”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”). Compare West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”), Dutch wiek (“wing; propeller, blade; wick”), German Wieche (“wisp; wick”).
Noun
wick (plural wicks)
- A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre/fiber, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax, or the oil, delivering it to the base of the flame for conversion to gases and burning; any other length of material burned for illumination in small successive portions.
- Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action, such as a strip of gauze placed in a wound to serve as a drain.
- (curling) A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.
- (curling) A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.
- (slang, euphemistic) The penis.
- 2008, Marcus Van Heller, Nest of Vixens, ?ISBN, p. 17:
- His wick was stone stiff.
- 2009, Ira Robbins, Kick It Till It Breaks, Trouser Press, ?ISBN, p. 130:
- Her laugh wasn't cruel in tone, but it cut through Husk like a scalpel, withering his wick even further.
- 2008, Marcus Van Heller, Nest of Vixens, ?ISBN, p. 17:
Derived terms
- candlewick
- get on someone's wick
Translations
Verb
wick (third-person singular simple present wicks, present participle wicking, simple past and past participle wicked)
- (transitive) To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To traverse (i.e. be conveyed by capillary action) through a wick or other porous material, as water through a sponge. Usually followed by through.
- (curling) To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.
Etymology 2
From earlier Middle English wik, wich (“village, hamlet, town”); from Old English w?c (“dwelling place, abode”); Germanic borrowing from Latin v?cus (“village, estate”) (see vicinity).
It came to mean “dairy farm” around the 13th or 14th century; for instance, Gatwick (“Goat-farm”). Cognates include Old High German wîch, wih (“village”), German Weichbild (“municipal area”), Dutch wijk (“quarter, district”), Old Frisian wik, Old Saxon wic (“village”), as well as Ancient Greek ????? (oîkos, “house”), whence English eco-. Doublet of vicus.
Noun
wick (plural wicks)
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (archaic) A village; hamlet; castle; dwelling; street; creek; bay; harbour; a place of work, jurisdiction, or exercise of authority.
- (Britain, dialect, chiefly East Anglia and Essex) A farm, especially a dairy farm.
Usage notes
- Present in compounds (meaning “village”, “jurisdiction”, or “harbour”), as -wick, such as bailiwick, sheriffwick, Warwick, Greenwick, Gatwick, Southwick, Hampton Wick etc., also -wich.
Related terms
- vicinity
- villa
- village
- -wich
- -wick
Etymology 3
From Old English cwic (“alive”); similar to an archaic meaning of quick (“endowed with life; having a high degree of vigor, energy, or activity”), and quicken (“come to life”).
Adjective
wick (comparative wicker or more wick, superlative wickest or most wick)
- (Britain, dialect, derogatory, chiefly Yorkshire) Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.
- (Can we date this quote?)
- 1860, "The Yorkshire Horsedealer", in Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England
- I'll swop wi' him my poor deead[sic] horse for his wick, […]
- (Britain, dialect, derogatory, chiefly Yorkshire, of inanimate objects) resistant to being put to use, stiff, stubborn (as for example a rope or a screw).
Related terms
- wicken
Translations
Noun
wick
- (Britain, obsolete, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Liveliness; life.
- (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
- (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire, horticulture) (Usually plural) The parts of weed roots that remain viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
- (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) A maggot.
Etymology 4
From Old Norse vik, from víkja (“to move, bend, curve”).
Noun
wick (plural wicks)
- (now dialectal) A corner of the mouth or eye.
References
- "wick" in BBC - North Yorkshire - Voices - Glossary
- Notes and Queries, Tenth Series, Vol. IV, 1905, page 170
- A. Smythe Palmer, Folk-Etymology, A Dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy, 1882, page xxii
- John Christopher Atkinson, A glossary of the Cleveland dialect: explanatory, derivative, and critical, 1868, page 573
- W. D. Parish, Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in use in the County of Sussex, 1877, page 274-5
Anagrams
- KWIC
Central Franconian
Alternative forms
- weck (most of Ripuarian)
- wiet (westernmost Ripuarian)
- weit (Moselle Franconian)
Etymology
From Old High German (*)w?d, northern variant of w?t, from Proto-Germanic *w?daz. The word underwent the regular Ripuarian velarisation -?d- ? -igd- ? -ig-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ik/
Adjective
wick (masculine wigge, feminine wick, comparative wigger, superlative et wickste)
- (Kölsch) far; wide; distant
Middle English
Adjective
wick
- Alternative form of wikke
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wicke
English
Etymology
From Middle English wikke, from Old English wicca (“witch”).
Adjective
wicke (comparative more wicke, superlative most wicke)
- Obsolete form of wicked.
Anagrams
- Weick, Wieck
Middle English
Adjective
wicke
- Alternative form of wikke
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