Adjective

(en-adj)

Evil or mischievous by nature.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=6 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”. […]’.}}

(slang)  Excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying.

Adjective

(-)

Having a wick.

a two-wicked lamp

(British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.

Adjective

(er)

In poor health.

* {{quote-book, year=a1420, year_published=1894, author=The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056

, by=(Lanfranc of Milan), title=Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." citation , chapter=Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone, isbn=1163911380 , publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, location=London, editor=Robert von Fleischhacker , page=63, passage=Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}

(colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.

(colloquial) In bad taste.

Having an urge to vomit.

(slang) Very good, excellent, awesome.

In poor condition.

(agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.

Tired of or annoyed by something.