Siker vs Piker - What's the difference?
siker | piker |
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* 1847 (publication date), James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms from the Fourteenth Century Vol. II. , pages 741 and 743:
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A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
* 1974 , (Thomas Keneally), Blood Red, Sister Rose ,
* 2008 , Cathal J. Nolan, Wars of the Age of Louis XIV, 1650-1715: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization ,
One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.
*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
, title=, chapter=1
, passage=“[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”}}
* 1921 , , Cow Country , 2004,
* 1999 , Lael Morgan, Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush ,
A stingy person; a cheapskate.
* 1916 , (Richard Harding Davis), The Man Who Could Not Lose , 2008,
* 2000 , , The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession ,
* 2006 , (Thomas Pynchon), (Against the Day) , Vintage 2007, p. 604:
An amateur.
One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early.
One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).
A male freshman at (Cornell University).
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==Norwegian Bokmål==
As nouns the difference between siker and piker
is that siker is gluten (a composite of the proteins gliadin and glutenin in plants like wheat) while piker is a soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.siker
English
Alternative forms
* sicker * siccer * siccarAdjective
- "That schip had a ful siker mast,
- And a sayl strong and large."
Derived terms
* sikerly * sikernessAdverb
Anagrams
* ----piker
English
Noun
(en noun)page 82,
- Upstairs in a waiting room there were pikers whose tunics echoed Baudricourt?s gold lion shield painted up and down the rafters.
page 363,
- By 1600, the ratio of pikers' to gunmen was roughly 3:2. By mid-century the ratio was only 1:2, and by 1670 there was just one '''piker to every three gunmen in the ''French Army .
page 79,
- Bud swelled his chest and laid his hand on Jeff?s shoulder. “Just to show you I?m not a piker ,” he cried recklessly, “I?ll bet you twenty-five dollars I can beat your Skeeter with my Smoky horse that I rode in here. Is it a go?”
page 96,
- “Now, boys,” said Marie walking up and down the bar, once or twice lifting her skirt to her knees and laughing. “The last bid?s $5,000. Say, ain?t you pikers a-goin? to bid higher than that for this?" And another flick of her skirts. “Here?s a nice plump chicken awaiting for a home.”
page 22,
- “And if you?ve got to be a piker',” said Dolly, “don?t be ashamed to be a ' piker . We?re not spending a hundred dollars because we can afford it, but because you dreamt a dream. You didn?t dream you were riding in parlor-cars! If you did, it?s time I woke you!”
- This day there was for them no box overlooking the finish, no club-house luncheon. With the other pikers , they sat in the free seats, with those who sat coatless and tucked their handkerchiefs inside their collars, and those who mopped their perspiring countenances with rice-paper and marked their cards with a hat-pin. Their lunch consisted of a massive ham sandwich with a top dressing of mustard.
page 218,
- The golden nuggets in the stream at Sutter?s Mill in California made Croesus look like a piker , and Australia, the Klondike, and South Africa were yet to come.
- Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker . For everything the Q?s ordered, she added on more of the same.
Usage notes
It has been linked etymologically to the word pikey as well as toIn the latter instance the term originally denoted poor immigrants to [[w:California, California].
Quotations
The 2000 film makes reference to "pikers" in the following excerpt: : So now you know what's possible, let me tell you what's required. You are required to work your fucking ass off at this firm. We want winners here, not pikers'. A '''piker''' walks at the bell. A ' piker asks how much vacation time you get in the first year. Vacation time? People come to work at this firm for one reason: to become filthy rich; that's it. We're not here to make friends; we're not saving the fucking manatees here, guys. You want vacation time, go teach third grade at a public school. (wav], [http://www.moviewavs.com/cgi-bin/mp3s.cgi?Boiler_Room=whatsrequired.mp3 mp3)