Sike vs Dying - What's the difference?
sike | dying |
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.
Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
(plurale tantum) Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
The process of approaching death; or, less precisely , death itself.
(nonstandard) )
As verbs the difference between sike and dying
is that sike is 3rd-person dual si-perfective neuter of while dying is or dying can be (nonstandard) ).As an adjective dying is
approaching death; about to die; moribund.As a noun dying is
(plurale tantum) those who are currently expiring, moribund.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
Etymology 2
Variant of (siche).Verb
Etymology 3
Variant of (psych).Interjection
(en interjection)Anagrams
* ----dying
English
(wikipedia dying)Etymology 1
Adjective
(-)- The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
- dying fire
- In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
- His dying words were of his mother.
- until my dying day
- his dying bed
Antonyms
* nascentNoun
- The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying .