Rick vs Hick - What's the difference?
rick | hick |
A stack, stook or pile of grain, straw, hay etc., especially as protected with thatching.
*(George Eliot) (1819-1880)
*:There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive ricks , rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows;.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
(lb) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
(military, pejorative, and, demeaning) A brand new (naive ) boot camp inductee.
(pejorative) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.
As nouns the difference between rick and hick
is that rick is a stack, stook or pile of grain, straw, hay etc., especially as protected with thatching while hick is an awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.As verbs the difference between rick and hick
is that rick is to heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks while hick is to hiccup.As proper nouns the difference between rick and hick
is that rick is a diminutive=Richard given name, or sometimes of related names, such as {{term|Ricardo}} while Hick is a diminutive=Richard given name.rick
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , Icelandic (m).Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* rickburnerEtymology 2
(etyl) wrickeEtymology 3
Abbreviated form from recruitNoun
(en noun)- No turning back now rick, you are property of the US government, no longer protected by the bill of rights; you follow the UCMJ now.
