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thick
- /θɪk/ Australia, US, UK
- /θɘk/ New Zealand
Sounds like thicc, thic · Rhymes with -ɪk
Where it comes from
From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian sjok, tjok, tjuk, tschok (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), West Frisian dik, tuuk (“thick”), Central Franconian deck (“thick”), Cimbrian dikh, dikhe (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Luxembourgish déck (“thick”), Yiddish דיק (dik, “thick”), Danish tyk (“thick”), Elfdalian tiokk (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk, tykk (“thick”), Scanian tjykker (“thick”), Swedish tjock (“thick”); also Cornish and Welsh tew (“thick”), Irish tiubh, tiugh (“thick”), Manx çhiu (“thick”), Scottish Gaelic tiugh (“thick”).
adjective thicker · thickest
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension. I want some planks that are two inches thick.
- Heavy in build; thickset. He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.
- Densely crowded or packed. My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay
- Having a viscous consistency. My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.
- Abounding in number. The room was thick with reporters.
- Impenetrable to sight. We drove through thick fog.
- Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin. He answered me in his characteristically thick Creole patois.
- Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated. We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent.
- Stupid. He was as thick as two short planks.
- Friendly or intimate. They were as thick as thieves.
- Deep, intense, or profound. Thick darkness.
- Detailed and expansive; substantive. Thick prehistory also is interested in a much broader array of topics than the perennial sociological concern for how individuals relate to the collective and how social continuity and change occur in light of that relationship; thick prehistory addresses the social, biological, and psychological pe
- Troublesome; unreasonable. “Screaming headlines in every paper in the country—damn all journalists, I say! Do you know there was a whole crowd staring in at the lodge gates this morning. Sort of Madame Tussaud’s chamber of horrors business that can be seen for nothing. Pretty thick, isn’t it?”
- Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips. A word to the thick soul sistas, I want to get with ya
adverb thicker · thickest
- In a thick manner. Snow lay thick on the ground.
- Frequently or numerously. The arrows flew thick and fast around us.
noun thicks
- The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something. It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
- A thicket. gloomy thicks
- A stupid person; a fool. If there was doctorates in bollocksology and scratching yourself in bed, the two of you'd be professors by now. Pair of loafing, idle thicks.
verb thicks · thicking · thicked
- To thicken. A wicked ambush , which lay hidden long In the close covert of her guilful eyen, Thence breaking forth , did thick about me throng
determiner
- Alternative form of thilk (“that same”).thilk
