Sike vs Psych - What's the difference?
sike | psych |
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.
Psychology or psychiatry.
A psychologist; a psychiatrist.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 476:
To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up).
To intimidate (someone) emotionally or using psychology (also psych out).
(informal) To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.
(slang) Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled one's interlocutor. Also sike .
In lang=en terms the difference between sike and psych
is that sike is indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled ("psyched out") one's interlocutor while psych is indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled one's interlocutor. Also sike.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
* ----psych
English
Alternative forms
* psycheNoun
(en noun)- a psych class
- She had attended a conference of psychs at which he had presided and they had taken a fancy to each other.