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Definitions for Wick

[1] a bundle or loose twist or braid of soft threads, or a woven strip or tube, as of cotton or asbestos, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove, cigarette lighter, or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil or other flammable liquid to be burned.
[2] to draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
[3] a narrow opening in the field, bounded by other players' stones.
[4] British Dialect . a farm, especially a dairy farm.
[5] Archaic . a village; hamlet.
[6] a town in the Highland region, in N Scotland: herring fisheries.
[7] a cord or band of loosely twisted or woven fibres, as in a candle, cigarette lighter, etc, that supplies fuel to a flame by capillary action
[8] get on someone's wick British slang to cause irritation to a person
[9] archaic a village or hamlet
[10] lively or active
[11] alive or crawling a dog wick with fleas
[12] a town in N Scotland, in Highland, at the head of Wick Bay (an inlet of the North Sea). Pop: 7333 (2001)

Words nearby Wick

wibble, wicca, wiccan, wichita, wichita falls, wick, wicked, wickedness, wicker, wickerwork, wicket

Origin of Wick

3before 900; Middle English wik, wich, Old English wīc house, village (compare Old Saxon wīc, Old High German wîch ) < Latin vīcus village, estate (see vicinity); cognate with Greek oîkos house (see ecology, economy)

Other words from Wick

wick·less , adjective

Word origin for Wick

dialect variant of quick alive