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4-letter words (1 found)

WICK,

3-letter words (1 found)

ICK,

2-letter words (1 found)

KI,

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All 4 letters words made out of wick

wick iwck wcik cwik icwk ciwk wikc iwkc wkic kwic ikwc kiwc wcki cwki wkci kwci ckwi kcwi ickw cikw ikcw kicw ckiw kciw

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Definitions and meaning of wick

wick

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɪk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪk

Etymology 1

From Middle English weke, wicke (“wick”), from Old English wēoce (“wick”), from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“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)

  1. A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre, 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.
  2. 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.
  3. (curling) A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.
  4. (curling) A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.
  5. (slang, euphemistic) The penis.
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Verb

wick (third-person singular simple present wicks, present participle wicking, simple past and past participle wicked)

  1. (transitive) To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
  2. (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.
  3. (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 wīc (“dwelling place, abode”); Germanic borrowing from Latin vīcus (“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 οἶκος (oîkos, “house”), whence English eco-. Doublet of vicus and -wich.

Noun

wick (plural wicks)

  1. (British, 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

Inherited from Northern Middle English whyk (southern quyk), 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”), to which it is related.

Adjective

wick (comparative wicker or more wick, superlative wickest or most wick)

  1. (British, dialect, derogatory, chiefly Yorkshire) Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.
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  3. (British, 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

  1. (British, obsolete, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Liveliness; life.
  2. (British, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
  3. (British, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire, horticulture) (Usually plural) The parts of weed roots that remain viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
  4. (British, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) A maggot.

Etymology 4

From Middle English wike, wyke, probably from Old Norse *vik (“a bend, angle, corner”), from Proto-Germanic *wikwą, from Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną; related to Old Norse vikna (“to yield, cave in”), Old Norse víkja (“to move, bend, curve”).

Noun

wick (plural wicks)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) A corner or angle.
  2. (obsolete or dialectal) A grove; a hollow.
  3. (now dialectal) A corner of the mouth or eye.

Etymology 5

From Middle English *wik, from Old Norse vík (“bay”), from Proto-Germanic *wīkō. Cognate with Old English wīc (“bight, creek, inlet”).

Noun

wick (plural wicks)

  1. (obsolete or Northern England, Scotland) An inlet or bay.

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
  • “wick”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “wick”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Cwik, KWIC

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • weck (most of Ripuarian)
  • wiet (Ripuarian)
  • weit (Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Middle High German wīt, from Old High German (*)wīd, northern variant of wīt, from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz.

The word underwent the regular Ripuarian velarisation -īd- → -igd- → -ig-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋik/

Adjective

wick (masculine wigge, feminine and plural wick or wigge, comparative wigger, superlative et wickste)

  1. (Kölsch) far, wide, distant

Middle English

Adjective

wick

  1. Alternative form of wikke

Scots

Alternative forms

  • wike, wik

Etymology

From Norwegian vik, from Old Norse vík, from víkja (“to move, bend, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɪk/

Noun

wick (plural wicks)

  1. an open bight or inlet of the sea, a bay
    Walter Scott (1821) The Pirate (in Scots): “By air and by wick, and by helyer and gio, And by every wild shore which the northern winds know.”

References

  • “wick” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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Alternative forms

  • wik

Etymology

From Middle English wycke, variant of weke, from Old English wiċe, from Proto-West Germanic *wikā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɪk/
  • Homophone: whick

Noun

wick

  1. week

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78

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