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sike

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
8
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/saɪk/

Definition of sike

5 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Northumbria, Scotland)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.
    “The swankies lap thro' mire and syke, Wow as their heads did birr!”
    “[...] a great gathering o' their folk at the Miry-sikes, […]”
    “It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh;[…]”
    “The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dankès deep was every sike;[…]”
    “[…] hills and mountains, moss or mure, bank or syke, sea or shore,[…]”
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noun

  1. (Northumbria, Scotland)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.
    “The swankies lap thro' mire and syke, Wow as their heads did birr!”
    “[...] a great gathering o' their folk at the Miry-sikes, […]”
    “It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh;[…]”
    “The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dankès deep was every sike;[…]”
    “[…] hills and mountains, moss or mure, bank or syke, sea or shore,[…]”
  2. (Northern-England, archaic)A sigh.

verb

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

det

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

intj

  1. (alt-of, alternative, slang)Alternative form of psych.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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.

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