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Wike vs Sike - What's the difference?

wike | sike |

As a noun wike

is (obsolete|uk|dialect) a home; a dwelling.

As a verb sike is

3rd-person dual si-perfective neuter of .

wike

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A home; a dwelling.
  • A temporary mark or boundary, such as a tree bough set up in marking out or dividing anything, such as tithes, swaths to be mowed in shared ground, etc.
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    sike

    English

    Alternative forms

    * syke

    Etymology 1

    From the northern form of (etyl) (see (sitch)), from (etyl). Cognate with Norwegian sik. Compare (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer.
    • The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. bedoven in dank deep was every sike . — A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512

    Etymology 2

    Variant of (siche).

    Verb

  • (archaic) To sigh or sob.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A sigh.

    • Etymology 3

    Variant of (psych).

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (slang) Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled ("psyched out") one's interlocutor.

    • Anagrams

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