Wick Definition

wĭk
wicks
noun
wicks
A piece of cord or tape, or a thin bundle of threads, in a candle, oil lamp, cigarette lighter, etc., designed to absorb fuel by capillary attraction and, when lighted, to burn with a small, steady flame.
Webster's New World
A piece of material that conveys liquid by capillary action.
American Heritage
A village, town, or hamlet.
Webster's New World
(curling) A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.
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(curling) A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.

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verb
To convey or be conveyed by capillary action.
Water gradually wicking up through the bricks.
American Heritage
To draw or absorb (water, perspiration, etc.) by capillary attraction.
A fabric that wicks sweat away from the skin.
Webster's New World

To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.
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(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.

The moisture slowly wicked through the wood.
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(curling) To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.

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adjective

(UK, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.

As wick as an eel.
T' wickest young chap at ivver Ah seen.
He's a strange wick bairn alus runnin' aboot.
I'll skin ye wick! (skin you alive)
I thowt they was dead last back end but they're wick enif noo.
"Are you afraid of going across the churchyard in the dark?" "Lor' bless yer noä miss! It isn't dead uns I'm scar'd on, it's wick uns."
I'll swop wi' him my poor dead horse for his wick. "” Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, page 210
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Other Word Forms of Wick

Noun

Singular:
wick
Plural:
wicks

Origin of Wick

  • From earlier Middle English wik, wich (“village, hamlet, town"); from Old English wÄ«c (“dwelling place, abode"); Germanic borrowing from Latin vÄ«cus (“village, estate") (see vicinity). Came to mean “dairy farm" around 13th-14th century (e.g. Gatwick “Goat-farm"). Compare cognates: Old High German wîch, wih (“village"), German Weichbild (“municipal area"), Dutch wijk (“quarter, district"), Ancient Greek οἶκος (oikos, “house"), Old Frisian wik, Old Saxon wic (“village").

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  • 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").

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  • Middle English weke, wicke; Old English wÄ“oce.

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  • Middle English wike from Old English wēoce

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old Norse vik.

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