Wicked vs Dicked - What's the difference?
wicked | dicked |
Evil or mischievous by nature.
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, chapter=6 (slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying.
(slang, New England, British) Very, extremely.
People who are wicked.Oxford dictionary [http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/wicked_2].
(wick)
Having a wick.
(British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.
(dick)
(vulgar) Having a specified kind of penis.
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(vulgar, slang) In trouble.
As adjectives the difference between wicked and dicked
is that wicked is evil or mischievous by nature or wicked can be having a wick while dicked is (vulgar) having a specified kind of penis.As verbs the difference between wicked and dicked
is that wicked is (wick) while dicked is (dick).As an adverb wicked
is (slang|new england|british) very, extremely.As a noun wicked
is people who are wickedoxford dictionary [http://wwwoxfordadvancedlearnersdictionarycom/dictionary/wicked_2].wicked
English
Etymology 1
1225-75 (etyl) wikked, wikke, an alteration of wicke, adjectival use of (etyl)Adjective
(en-adj)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "wicked" is often applied: witch, person, man, woman, angel, deed, act, pleasure, delight, game, way, night, word.Synonyms
* (evil or mischievous) evil, immoral, malevolent, malicious, nefarious, twisted, villainous, See also * awesome, bad, cool, dope, excellent, far out, groovy, hot, rad, See alsoDerived terms
* wickedly * wickedness * wicked tongueAdverb
(-)- The band we went to see the other night was wicked loud!
Synonyms
* hella, helluv (primarily Northern California slang )Noun
Etymology 2
See (wick)Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- a two-wicked lamp
dicked
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- "You're a limp-dicked excuse for a man."
- That's really frustrating when you have a chance for that glory, to win a game where somebody's luckier than a two-dicked dog, and you just can't do it.
- He is really dicked . His car broke down and today is his first day on his new job.
