Rick vs Mortimer - What's the difference?
rick | mortimer |
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.
* : Act I, Scene III:
transferred from the surname.
* 1941 , Shenandoah , New Directions (1941), page 13:
As proper nouns the difference between rick and mortimer
is that rick is a diminutive=Richard given name, or sometimes of related names, such as {{term|Ricardo}} while Mortimer is {{surname|British|from=Old French}.As a noun rick
is a stack, stook or pile of grain, straw, hay etc., especially as protected with thatching.As a verb rick
is to heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.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.
mortimer
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- He said he would not ransom Mortimer'; / Forbade my tongue to speak of '''Mortimer'''; / But I will find him when he lies asleep, / And in his ear I'll holla '' Mortimer !'
- I like the names Herbert and Mortimer more all the time. They are so distinguished and new and American. Do you know how I came to think of them? I was reading the newspaper in bed after my first boy was born. I was reading the society page, which is always so interesting.
