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Webster 1913 Edition


Sike

{

Sik

,

Sike

, }
Adj.
Such. See
Such
.
[Obs.]
Sike fancies weren foolerie.”
Spenser.

Sike

,
Noun.
[AS.
sīc
. Cf.
Sig
.]
A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Sike

,
Noun.
[See
Sick
.]
A sick person.
[Prov. Eng.]

Sike

,
Verb.
I.
To sigh.
[Obs.]
That for his wife weepeth and
siketh
sore.
Chaucer.

Sike

,
Noun.
A sigh.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sike

SIK

, SIKE,
Adj.
Such.

Definition 2024


sike

sike

See also: siké

English

Alternative forms

Noun

sike (plural sikes)

  1. 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

Variant of siche, a dialectal variant of sigh.

Verb

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

  1. (archaic) To sigh or sob.

Noun

sike (plural sikes)

  1. (archaic) A sigh.

Etymology 3

Variant of psych.

Interjection

sike

  1. (slang) Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled ("psyched out") one's interlocutor.

Anagrams


Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowing from German Ziege.

Noun

sike

  1. goat

Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic.

Noun

sike ?

  1. coin

Turkish

Noun

sike

  1. dative singular of sik