Fike vs Sike - What's the difference?
fike | sike |
(ambitransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.
To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
To give trouble to; vex; perplex.
Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.
Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.
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 fike and sike
is that fike is (ambitransitive) to feign; dissemble; flatter or fike can be to move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion while sike is 3rd-person dual si-perfective neuter of .As a noun fike
is restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance or fike can be (obsolete) a fig.fike
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(fik)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fiken, . Related to (l) and (l).Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (Scotland)Verb
(fik)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 3
From (etyl) fike, from (etyl) . More at (l).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