sike
See also: siké
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -aɪk
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English sike, the northern form of Old English sīċ (see sitch) and also from Old Norse sík; both from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; trickle”). Cognate with Norwegian sik. Compare sheuch.
Noun[edit]
sike (plural sikes)
- A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer.
- The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. bedoven in dank deep was every sike. — A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512
Etymology 2[edit]
Variant of siche, a dialectal variant of sigh.
Verb[edit]
sike (third-person singular simple present sikes, present participle siking, simple past and past participle siked)
Noun[edit]
sike (plural sikes)
Etymology 3[edit]
Variant of psych.
Interjection[edit]
sike
- (slang) Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled ("psyched out") one's interlocutor.
Anagrams[edit]
Chuukese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
sike
Kurdish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Arabic.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sike ?
Turkish[edit]
Noun[edit]
sike
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- English countable nouns
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- English terms with archaic senses
- English interjections
- English slang
- Chuukese terms borrowed from German
- Chuukese terms derived from German
- Chuukese lemmas
- Chuukese nouns
- Kurdish terms derived from Arabic
- Kurdish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Kurdish lemmas
- Kurdish nouns
- Turkish non-lemma forms
- Turkish noun forms