sike

See also: siké

English

Alternative forms

• syke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɪk/

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• Rhymes: -aɪk
• Homophones: psych, cyc

Etymology 1

From Northern Middle English sike, from Old English sīċ (see sitch), possibly also from or related to Old Norse sík; both from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; trickle”). Cognate with Norwegian sik. Compare Scots sheuch.

Noun

sike (plural sikes)

1. (Scotland, Northumbria) A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer; the marshy ground or ditch through which such a stream flows.
   • 1809, John Skinner, Amusements of Leisure Hours, or Poetical Pieces, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, page 41:

     The swankies lap thro' mire and syke, Wow as their heads did birr!

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord: 2nd Series, Collectd and Arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseud.], page 6:

     [...] a great gathering o' their folk at the Miry-sikes,  […]

   • 1859, William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison, The London Quarterly Review, page 278:

     It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; […]

   • 1876, Rosaline Orme Masson, Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to Herrick, A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512, page 160:

     The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dankès deep was every sike; […]

   • 1937, Scottish History Society, Publications of the Scottish History Society:

     […] hills and mountains, moss or mure, bank or syke, sea or shore, […]

   • 1952 [1776], Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings:

     The march of that herding is to come from the Rispie syke to the point at Blood syke Bottom to the stone syke-head.

Alternative forms

• syke

Etymology 2

From Middle English siken, from Old English sīcan (“to sigh”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan (“to sigh”). Doublet of sigh.

Verb

sike (third-person singular simple present sikes, present participle siking, simple past and past participle siked)

1. (archaic or Northern England) To sigh or sob.

Noun

sike (plural sikes)

1. (archaic or Northern England) A sigh.

Etymology 3

Determiner

sike

1. (Yorkshire) Such.
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     She macks sike warke.

References

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Etymology 4

Pronunciation respelling of psych.

Interjection

sike

1. (slang) Alternative form of psych.

Anagrams

• EIKs, Kise, seki, skie

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ziege.

Noun

sike

1. goat

Manchu

Romanization

sike

1. Romanization of ᠰᡳᡴᡝ

Middle English

Adjective

sike

1. Alternative form of sik

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic سِكَّة (sikka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈkɛ/

Noun

sike ?

1. coin

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• sika (a-infinitive)

Verb

sike (present tense sik or sikar or siker, past tense seik or sika or sikt, supine sike or sika or sikt, past participle siken or sika or sikt, present participle sikande, imperative sik)

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References

• “sike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Turkish

Noun

sike

1. dative singular of sik

West Frisian

Alternative forms

• syk

Etymology 1

Deverbal from sykje (“to seek, to search”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsikə/

Noun

sike c (plural siken)

1. breath
2. gust of wind

Further reading

• “sike”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

Compare Dutch zieke (“sick person”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siːkə/, /sikə/

Noun

sike c (plural siken)

1. sick person

Derived terms

• sikehûs
• sikemaster

Further reading

• “sike”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011