Sike vs Sixe - What's the difference?
sike | sixe |
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.
As a verb sike
is 3rd-person dual si-perfective neuter of .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