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rick¹
- /ɹɪk/ UK
Rhymes with -ɪk
Where it comes from
From Middle English *rykke, from Old English hrycce (“rick, heap, pile”), cognate with Scots ruk (“rick”), Norwegian ruka (“rick, haystack”). Related also to Old English hrēac (“rick, stack”), from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap”). Further relations: Dutch rook, Icelandic hraukur, Irish cruach. Doublet of croagh.
noun ricks · ruck
- Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch. "So this last week, you see, crown'd the business; an' on Satherday night the last shafe was nately tied an' sint in to the misthress, an' everything was finisht, all to the tatchin' o' the ricks."
- A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
verb ricks · ricking · ricked · ruck
- To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
rick²
- /ɹɪk/ UK
Rhymes with -ɪk
Where it comes from
From earlier wrick, from Middle English wricken, wrikken (“to move back and forth”), probably from Middle Dutch *verwricken or Middle Low German vorwricken. Cognate with West Frisian wrikke, wrikje, Dutch wrikken, Low German wricken, German wricken, Danish vrikke, Swedish vricka.
verb ricks · ricking · ricked
- To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc; to wrench.
- To pierce with a hook by means of a sudden jerk or pull.
noun ricks
- A sharp or sudden move; a jerk or tug.
rick³
- /ɹɪk/ UK
Rhymes with -ɪk
Where it comes from
From Middle English *rikken (attested only as palatised variant Middle English richen (“to pull, tug; to move, proceed, run; to twist, turn”)), from Old Norse rykkja (“to move, rock, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *rukkijaną (“to rock, move”). Cognate with English rock. Possibly merged with Middle English wrikken (“to move to and fro, move back and forth”), see Etymology 2 above.
verb ricks · ricking · ricked
- To rattle, jingle, make a noise; to chatter.
- To grumble.
- To scold.
- To raffle.
noun ricks
- A noise, rattling.
rick⁴
- /ɹɪk/ UK
Rhymes with -ɪk
Where it comes from
Abbreviated form from recruit.
noun ricks
- A new and naive boot camp inductee. No turning back now, rick: you are the property of the US government now.
Rick⁵
- /ɹɪk/
Sounds like rick · Rhymes with -ɪk
proper noun Ric · Rik
- A diminutive of the male given name Richard, as well as similar name such as Ricardo. Mark Watney is the first of them to be introduced on screen, in the middle of collecting soil and rock samples from the Martian surface. Rick Martinez (Michael Peña) jokes that he just discovered dirt, and Mark ribs him about the usefulness of his job.
- A surname transferred from the given name.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: haystack, hayrick, twist, wrick, wrench, crick, turn, sprain, hay, gar, foin, rich, ric, find, ricky, peter
Translations
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