wick

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A basket made of wickers (“flexible branches or twigs of a plant such as willow woven together”); a creel. England,countable
    — A captive fish still fills the anxious eyes / And willow-wicks lie ready for the prize; […]
  2. An inlet, such as a creek or small bay. England,Northern-England,Scotland
    — The power thou dost covet / O'er tempest and wave, / Shall be thine, thou proud maiden, / By beach and by cave,— / By stack and by skerry, by noup, and by voe, / By air and by wick, and by helyer and gio, / And by every wild shore which the northern winds know, / And the northern tides lave.
  3. A shot where the played bowl or stone touches a stationary bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; a cannon. England
  4. A hamlet or village; also, a town. England
    — And by report, there vvere eight thouſand Gaules there ſlaine: the reſt abandoned the vvarre, and ſlipt every one into their ovvne vvickes and villages.
  5. A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth. England,dialectal,obsolete
    — [H]ee vvould therefore haue you to make ſome expert Horſe farrier, to ſlit vp the vveekes of your Horſes mouth, equallie on both ſides of his cheekes, vvith a ſharpe rayſor, and then to ſeare it vvith a hot yron, and ſo heale it in ſuch ſorte, as the ſydes thereof may no more grovv together, but appeare like a natural mouth: to vvhome I make this anſvvere, that I imagine neither hee, nor any other Horſe-man hath heere in England ſeene a horſe of that ſhallovvneſſe of mouth, vvhich vvold not giue place for a reaſonable bytt to lie in; […]
  6. A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame. countable
    — Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke.
  7. A maggot. England,UK,Yorkshire,countable,dialectal
  8. The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots. England,UK,Yorkshire,countable,dialectal
    — Fed close? Why, it’s eaten into t’ hard wick.
  9. Wickers collectively; also, synonym of wickerwork (“wickers woven together”). England,uncountable
  10. Synonym of port (“a narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through”). England
  11. A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.; Short for wick-tooth (“a canine tooth”). England,abbreviation,alt-of,dialectal,obsolete
  12. A farm; specifically, a dairy farm. East-Anglia,England,Essex
    — Note a fearme [farm] in the North parts is called a Tacke, in Lancaſhire a Fermeholt, in Eſſex a Wike.
  13. A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.; Synonym of wicking (“the material of which wicks (etymology 1, noun sense 1) are made”). uncountable
    — There liues vvithin the very flame of loue / A kind of weeke or ſnufe that vvill abate it, […]
  14. An enclosed piece of land; a close. England,obsolete
  15. The part of the root of a weed that remains viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation. England,UK,Yorkshire,countable,dialectal
  16. A grove; also, a hollow. England,dialectal,obsolete
  17. A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.; Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action; specifically (medicine), a strip of gauze placed in a wound, etc., to absorb fluids. broadly,countable
  18. Life; also, liveliness. England,UK,Yorkshire,dialectal,obsolete
  19. Often in dip one's wick: the penis. countable,euphemistic,slang
    — His wick was stone stiff.
动词 v.
  1. Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action. transitive
    — The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.
  2. To strike (a stationary bowl or stone) with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon. England,transitive
    — He vvas the king of a' the Core, / To guard, or dravv, or vvick a bore, […]
  3. Of a material: to convey or draw off liquid by capillary action. intransitive
  4. To strike a stationary bowl or stone with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon. England,intransitive
  5. Chiefly followed by through or up: of a liquid: to move by capillary action through a porous material. intransitive
    — The moisture slowly wicked through the wood.
形容词 adj.
  1. Synonym of quick (“alive, living; also, active, lively”). England,Northern-England,Yorkshire
    — Well! yo must know I were in th' Infirmary for a fever, and times were rare and bad; and there be good chaps there to a man, while he's wick, whate'er they may be about cutting him up at after.
    The liveliest young chap as ever I've seen.

词形变化

wicks plural wicks present,singular,third-person wicking participle,present wicked participle,past wicked past wicks plural wicker comparative more wick comparative wickest superlative most wick superlative wicks plural wicks plural wicks plural wicks present,singular,third-person wicking participle,present wicked participle,past wicked past wicks plural wicks plural

词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
The noun is derived from Middle English wek, weke, wicke (“fibrous cord drawing fuel to flame of a candle, etc.; material used to make this object”), from Old English wēoce (“wick”), from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle; wick”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”).
It has been suggested that noun etymology 1, noun sense 2 (“penis”) is derived from Hampton Wick, used as rhyming slang for prick. If so, that sense should be placed under etymology 2.
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* Dutch wiek (“wick; wing; blade, propeller”)
* German Wieche (“wick; wisp”)
* Swedish veke (“wick”)
* West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”)
词源 2
From Middle English wik, wike, wich, wicke (“dwelling, home; building or land, probably enclosed, in which work is done; area, region, territory; city, town; hamlet, village”), from Old English wīc (“dwelling place, abode, lodging; temporary dwelling place, camp; place where a thing remains; town, village”), and then probably:
* from Latin vīcus (“row of houses; street; quarter, neighbourhood; hamlet, village; municipal section or ward; farm”), from Proto-Italic *weikos (“village”); and/or
* from Proto-West Germanic *wīhs (“burgh, village; colony, settlement; dwelling”), from Proto-Germanic *wīhsą (“settlement; village”);
both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“to enter in; to settle; settlement”). Doublet of vicus and -wich.
cognates
* Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) (whence English eco-)
* Dutch wijk (“quarter, district”)
* Old Frisian wik
* Old High German wîch, wih (“village”) (modern German Weichbild (“municipal area”))
* Old Saxon wic (“village”)
词源 3
A variant of quick.
词源 4
From Late Middle English wike, wyke (“corner of part of the body”), from Old Norse *vík (“angle, bend, corner”) (attested in munnvík (“corner of the mouth”)), from víkja (“to move, bend, curve; to retreat”) (related to Old Norse vikna (“to cave in, yield”)), probably from Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną (“to cease; to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃weyg-, *weyg- (“to bend, turn; to wind”).
词源 5
Probably borrowed from Scots wick (“(noun) shot in which a bowl or stone is aimed at another so that one or other is deflected at an angle towards the tee, cannon; (verb) to strike (a bowl or curling stone) in such a manner; to (attempt to) reach the tee in this manner”), The Scots noun is probably derived from Middle English wike, wyke (“corner of part of the body”); the verb from Old Norse víkja (“to move, bend, curve; to retreat”): see further at etymology 4.
词源 6
Possibly from Middle English *wik (compare Old English wīc (“small bay, bight; creek, inlet”)), or from Old Norse vík (“bay; small creek, inlet”) (in place names; compare *vík (“angle, bend, corner”), attested in munnvík (“corner of the mouth”)), from Proto-Germanic *wīkō (“bay; fjord, inlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, turn; to wind”), *weyk- (“to bend, curve”).
词源 7
Probably a clipping of wicker.
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