sike

• syke

• IPA^(key): /saɪk/

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• Rhymes: -aɪk
• Homophones: psych, cyc

From Middle English sike, the northern form of Old English sīċ (see sitch), possibly also from or related to Old Norse sík; both from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; trickle”). Cognate with Norwegian sik. Compare Scots sheuch.

sike (plural sikes)

1. (Scotland, Northumbria) A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer; the marshy ground or ditch through which such a stream flows.
   • 1809, John Skinner, Amusements of Leisure Hours, or Poetical Pieces, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, page 41:

     The swankies lap thro' mire and syke, Wow as their heads did birr!

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord: 2nd Series, Collectd and Arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseud.], page 6:

     [...] a great gathering o' their folk at the Miry-sikes,  […]

   • 1859, William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison, The London Quarterly Review, page 278:

     It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; […]

   • 1876, Rosaline Orme Masson, Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to Herrick, A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512, page 160:

     The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dankès deep was every sike; […]

   • 1937, Scottish History Society, Publications of the Scottish History Society:

     […] hills and mountains, moss or mure, bank or syke, sea or shore, […]

   • 1952 [1776], Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings:

     The march of that herding is to come from the Rispie syke to the point at Blood syke Bottom to the stone syke-head.

• syke

From Middle English siken, from Old English sīcan (“to sigh”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan (“to sigh”). Doublet of sigh.

sike (third-person singular simple present sikes, present participle siking, simple past and past participle siked)

1. (archaic or Northern England) To sigh or sob.

sike (plural sikes)

1. (archaic or Northern England) A sigh.

sike

1. (Yorkshire) Such.
   • (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     She macks sike warke.

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Pronunciation respelling of psych.

sike

1. (slang) Alternative form of psych.

• EIKs, Kise, seki, skie

Borrowed from German Ziege.

sike

1. goat

sike

1. Romanization of ᠰᡳᡴᡝ

From Arabic سِكَّة (sikka).

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈkɛ/

sike ?

1. coin

• sika (a-infinitive)

sike (present tense sik or sikar or siker, past tense seik or sika or sikt, supine sike or sika or sikt, past participle siken or sika or sikt, present participle sikande, imperative sik)

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• “sike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

sike

1. dative singular of sik

• syk

Deverbal from sykje (“to seek, to search”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsikə/

sike c (plural siken)

1. breath
2. gust of wind

• “sike”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Compare Dutch zieke (“sick person”).

• IPA^(key): /siːkə/, /sikə/

sike c (plural siken)

1. sick person

• “sike”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011