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wike
English
Etymology
From Old English wic. See wick (“village”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?k
Noun
wike (plural wikes)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A home; a dwelling.
- A temporary mark or boundary, such as a tree bough set up in marking out or dividing anything, such as tithes, swaths to be mowed in shared ground, etc.
Anagrams
- Weik
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English wicce.
Adjective
wike
- Alternative form of wikke
Etymology 2
From Old English wicu.
Noun
wike
- Alternative form of weke (“week”)
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian wike, from Proto-West Germanic *wik?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?vik?/
Noun
wike c (plural wiken, diminutive wykje)
- week
Further reading
- “wike (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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hike
English
Etymology
From English dialectal hyke (“to walk vigorously”), probably a Northern form of hitch, from Middle English hytchen, hichen, icchen (“to move, jerk, stir”). Cognate with Scots hyke (“to move with a jerk”), dialectal German hicken (“to hobble, walk with a limp”), Danish hinke (“to hop”). More at hick.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ha?k/
- Rhymes: -a?k
Noun
hike (plural hikes)
- A long walk.
- An abrupt increase.
- The tenants were not happy with the rent hike.
- (American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
- A sharp upward tug to raise something.
- 2016, Erik Schubach, The Hollow
- She gave a cute hike of her skirt as she spun and almost sauntered down the stairs.
- 2016, Erik Schubach, The Hollow
Translations
Verb
hike (third-person singular simple present hikes, present participle hiking, simple past and past participle hiked)
- To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
- Don't forget to bring the map when we go hiking tomorrow.
- To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
- (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
- (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
- To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
- She hiked her skirt up.
Synonyms
- (to take a long walk): tramp
- (to lean to the windward side): lean out, sit out
Derived terms
- hiker
- hiking
Translations
Interjection
hike
- Let's go; get moving. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher.
See also
- hitchhike
- hitchhiker
- take a hike
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin h?c.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hik?/
Adverb
hike
- here, in this place
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
hike (present tense hiker, past tense hika or hiket, past participle hika or hiket)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by hige
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
After Danish hige.
Verb
hike (present tense hikar, past tense hika, past participle hika, passive infinitive hikast, present participle hikande, imperative hik)
- to yearn
See also
- hige (Bokmål)
References
- “hike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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