Sike vs Physic - What's the difference?
sike | physic |
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.
(countable) A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.
(uncountable) The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.
(obsolete) A physician.
To cure or heal; to treat or administer medicine, especially to purge.
As nouns the difference between sike and physic
is that sike is a gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer while physic is a medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.As verbs the difference between sike and physic
is that sike is to sigh or sob while physic is to cure or heal; to treat or administer medicine, especially to purge.As an interjection sike
is indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled ("psyched out") one's interlocutor.As an adjective physic is
relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.sike
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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
* ----physic
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Alternative forms
* physick (obsolete)Noun
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