Biked vs Siked - What's the difference?
biked | siked |
(bike)
A short form of bicycle.
A short form of motorbike.
(slang) A promiscuous woman; from “the town bike (everybody rides her)”.
To ride a bike.
To travel by bike.
(Scotland, Northern England) A nest of wasps or hornets.
*1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 107:
*:he stood for a minute talking to them about their job of gathering cones, and telling them a story about a tree he'd once climbed which had a wasp's byke in it unbeknown to him.
(sike)
A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer.
(archaic) To sigh or sob.
(slang) Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled ("psyched out") one's interlocutor.
As verbs the difference between biked and siked
is that biked is past tense of bike while siked is past tense of sike.biked
English
Verb
(head)- I biked to school yesterday.
bike
English
Etymology 1
From , by shortening, and possibly alteration. One explanation for the pronunciation is that bicycle'' is parsed to ''bi(cy)c(le).'' An alternative explanation is that ''bicycle'' is shortened to ''bic(ycle),'' and the terminal [s] is converted to a [k] because there is an underlying [k]/[s] sound, which is softened to [s] in ''bicycle'' but retained as [k] in bike ; compare the letter ‘c’ (used for [k]/[s]).''An Etymological Brainteaser: The Shortening of Bicycle to Bike, Robert B. Hausmann, American Speech, Vol. 51, No. 3/4 (Autumn - Winter, 1976), pp. 272–274
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (motorcycle): motorbike * (woman): slapper (British''), slag (''British )Derived terms
* (bicycle) cross bike; dirt bike; like riding a bike; mountain bike; road bike; utility bike * (motorcycle) biker; bikey or bikie (Australia ); quad bike * (woman) town bike, village bikeSee also
* trikeReferences
Verb
(bik)- I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.
- It was such a nice day I decided to bike to the store, though it's far enough I usually take my car.
Etymology 2
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* * English collective nouns ----siked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *sike
English
Alternative forms
* sykeEtymology 1
From the northern form of (etyl) (see (sitch)), from (etyl). Cognate with Norwegian sik. Compare (m).Noun
(en noun)- The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. bedoven in dank deep was every sike . — A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512