Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small stream of water; a rill; a gutter.
  • noun A marshy bottom with a small stream in it.
  • noun A Middle English form of sigh.
  • A Middle English form of sick.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. A sick person.
  • noun obsolete A sigh.
  • noun Prov. Eng. & Scot. A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To sigh.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb archaic To sigh or sob.
  • noun archaic A sigh.
  • noun A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer.

Etymologies

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From the northern form of Old English sīċ (see sitch), from Germanic. Cognate with Norwegian sik.

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Variant of siche.

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  • Uncle Doug: "I heard your dad's getting you a Nintendo for Christmas."

    Me: "REALLY?!"

    Uncle Doug: "Sike!"

    May 29, 2007

  • I always thought this was "psych," as in "I psyched you out!"

    May 29, 2007

  • It probably should be, but the Perry Bible Fellowship has forever changed my perspective on the matter:

    May 29, 2007

  • Ah. I see. ;-)

    May 29, 2007

  • I once designed the following shirt for our psychology dept in college:

    front: I love to study...

    back: Psyc!!!

    (And I never got my stinkin' free t-shirt!)

    May 30, 2007

  • Nice! More sophisticated than my sense of humor. :-)

    May 30, 2007

  • That's clever. Reminds me of the shirts we had in my department at grad school: a frog with a little word balloon saying "rhetoric."

    Anyone have a list of "words that sound like frogs croaking"?

    October 17, 2007

  • Syrup has always reminded me of the sound that wood frogs make in the spring.

    October 17, 2007

  • Cathari, I really think you ought to start that list, having brought it up. ;-)

    October 17, 2007

  • So did we ever get that list of 'words that sound like frogs croaking'?

    April 5, 2009

  • I have one. It's Kneeedeeep!

    April 5, 2009