wicker

See also: Wicker

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English wiker, cognate with Swedish vikker (“willow”), Old Norse veikr (“weak”), English weak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪkə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪkə(r)
• enPR: wĭkʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈwɪkɚ/
• Homophone: whicker (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
• Homophone: Wicca (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

wicker (countable and uncountable, plural wickers)

1. A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture
2. Wickerwork.
   • (Can we date this quote by Chapman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Then quick did dress / His half milk up for cheese, and in a press / Of wicker pressed it.

Derived terms

• wickerwork
• rewicker
• wicker man

Translations

flexible branch or twig

• Assamese: কামি (kami)
• Catalan: vímet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柳條／柳条 (zh) (liǔtiáo), 柳条 (zh) (liǔtiáo), 篳／筚 (zh) (bì), 筚 (zh) (bì)

• Finnish: vitsa (fi)
• French: osier (fr) m
• Galician: vime m, vimbio m, bringa f, buíño m, guineita f, guimia f, trogallo m, brime m, ódega f
• German: Weide (de) f
• Greek: ψάθα (el) f (psátha)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: vimini
• Japanese: 小枝 (こえだ, koeda), 籐 (ja) (とう, tō) (esp. attributive)
• Korean: 고리 (ko) (gori)
• Persian: غیشه (ğiše)
• Polish: wiklina (pl) f
• Portuguese: vime (pt) m, verga (pt) f
• Russian: прут (ru) m (prut), лоза́ (ru) f (lozá)
• Spanish: mimbre (es) m

wickerwork — see wickerwork

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Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Flechtwerk (de) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• (deprecated template usage) Korean: 고리 (gori)

See also

• basket
• cradle

Adjective

wicker (not comparable)

1. Made of wickerwork.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.

Further reading

• wicker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Middle English

Adjective

wicker

1. comparative degree of wikke