Wick vs Villain - What's the difference?
wick | villain |
A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre/fiber, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax, or the oil, delivering it to the base of the flame for conversion to gases and burning; any other length of material burned for illumination in small successive portions.
* Spenser
Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action; a strip of gauze placed in a wound to serve as a drain.
(curling) A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.
(curling) A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.
(slang) Penis.
* 2008 , Marcus Van Heller, Nest of Vixens , ISBN 9781596549449,
* 2009 , Ira Robbins, Kick It Till It Breaks , , ISBN 9780984253913,
To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
(of a liquid) To traverse ( be conveyed by capillary action) through a wick or other porous material, as water through a sponge. Usually followed by through.
(curling) To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.
(British, dialect, chiefly, East Anglia, and, Essex) A farm, especially a dairy farm.
(archaic) A village; hamlet; castle; dwelling; street; creek; bay; harbour; a place of work, jurisdiction, or exercise of authority.
(British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.
(British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Liveliness; life.
(British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
(British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) A maggot.
A corner of the mouth or eye.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 57:
(rfc-sense) (en) A vile, wicked person.
# An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.
# A deliberate scoundrel.
The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero.
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As nouns the difference between wick and villain
is that wick is a bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre/fiber, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax, or the oil, delivering it to the base of the flame for conversion to gases and burning; any other length of material burned for illumination in small successive portions while villain is a vile, wicked person.As verbs the difference between wick and villain
is that wick is to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action while villain is to debase; to degrade.As an adjective wick
is alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.wick
English
(wikipedia wick)Etymology 1
(etyl) weke, wicke; (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke.
- But true it is, that when the oil is spent / The light goes out, and wick is thrown away.
p. 17:
- His wick was stone stiff.
p. 130:
- Her laugh wasn't cruel in tone, but it cut through Husk like a scalpel, withering his wick even further.
Derived terms
* get on someone's wickVerb
(en verb)- The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.
- The moisture slowly wicked through the wood.
Etymology 2
From earlier (etyl) wik, .Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Present in compounds (meaning “village”, “jurisdiction”, or “harbour”), as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick, , etc., also -wich .Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)- as wick as an eel
- T' wickest young chap at ivver Ah seen.
- He's a strange wick bairn alus runnin' aboot.
- I'll skin ye wick ! (skin you alive)
- I thowt they was dead last back end but they're wick enif noo.
- "''Are you afraid of going across the churchyard in the dark?" "Lor' bless yer noä miss! It isn't dead uns I'm scar'd on, it's wick uns."
- I'll swop wi' him my poor dead horse for his wick .'' — ''Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England , page 210
Noun
- I niver knew such an a thing afore in all my wick . — Ashby, 12 July 1875
- Fed close? Why, it's eaten into t' hard wick . (spoken of a pasture which has been fed very close)
Etymology 4
From (etyl) vik.Noun
(en noun)- She considered him. A fiery droplet in the wick of her mouth considered him.
References
* "wick" inBBC - North Yorkshire - Voices - Glossary* Notes and Queries , Tenth Series, Vol. IV, 1905,
page 170* A. Smythe Palmer, Folk-Etymology, A Dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy , 1882,
page xxii* John Christopher Atkinson, A glossary of the Cleveland dialect: explanatory, derivative, and critical , 1868,
page 573* W. D. Parish, Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in use in the County of Sussex, 1877,
page 274-5
villain
English
(wikipedia villain)Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain , and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
- As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain —not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.
