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Wicked vs Wicket - What's the difference?

wicked | wicket |

As nouns the difference between wicked and wicket

is that wicked is people who are wicked. while wicket is a small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.

As an adjective wicked

is evil or mischievous by nature.

As an adverb wicked

is very, extremely.

As a verb wicked

is past tense of wick.

wicked

English

Etymology 1

1225-75 (etyl) wikked, wikke, an alteration of wicke, adjectival use of (etyl)

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.
    • 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 also
    Derived terms
    * wickedly * wickedness * wicked tongue

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (slang, New England, British) Very, extremely.
    • The band we went to see the other night was wicked loud!
    Synonyms
    * hella, helluv (primarily Northern California slang )

    Noun

  • People who are wicked.Oxford dictionary [http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/wicked_2].

    • Etymology 2

    See (wick)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wick)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a wick.
    • a two-wicked lamp
  • (British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.

    • References

    English degree adverbs English heteronyms English intensifiers

    wicket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.
  • A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386:
    • As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket .
  • (British) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a (ticket barrier) at a rail station.
  • (cricket) One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.
  • (cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
  • (cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together.
  • (cricket) The pitch.
  • (cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
  • (croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
  • (skiing, snowboarding) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
  • (US, dialect) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
    • (Bartlett)
  • (mining) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
    • (Raymond)
  • (Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)