Wicke

See also: wicke

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wicke.

Proper noun

Wicke (plural Wickes)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wicke is the 33695^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 676 individuals. Wicke is most common among White (94.67%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wicke”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Weick, Wieck

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪkə/
• Hyphenation: Wi‧cke
• (pre-1996) Hyphenation: Wik‧ke

Etymology 1

From Middle High German wicke, from Old High German wicka, from Proto-West Germanic *wikkjā. The sense of a worthless item derives from the opposition to cereal plants; now “Wicke” is rather praised as an ornamental plant.

The idiom “in die Wicken gehen”, not to be tracked further than the nineteenth century and still rather rare, is less common with this noun than with Binsen and derives either from that old antithesis or from the idea of hunted game being lost when it has alighted in the plants. With other verbs it is only transferred.

Noun

Wicke f (genitive Wicke, plural Wicken)

1. vetch (Vicia gen. et spp.)
2. (obsolete) something worthless, a bugger
3. (regional, colloquial) state of failure, wreckedness, only in the following constructions:

   Der Motor ist in die Wicken gegangen. ― The motor has given up.

   Der Regisseur hat den Film in die Wicken geritten. ― The director has marred the movie.

Declension

Declension of Wicke [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Wicke	die	Wicken
genitive	einer	der	Wicke	der	Wicken
dative	einer	der	Wicke	den	Wicken
accusative	eine	die	Wicke	die	Wicken

Derived terms

• Beilwicke
• Kronwicke

Etymology 2

Noun

Wicke f (genitive Wicke, plural Wicken)

1. alternative form of Wieche
   • 1842, G. Ludwig Dieterich, Die Krankheits-Familie Syphilis, volume 2: Besonderer Theil, Landshut: v. Vogel’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 350:

     Bei breiten Nasenlöchern kann man Wicken, von Scharpie gedreht, nehmen.

     With broad nostrils one can take wicks twisted from lint.

Declension

Declension of Wicke [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Wicke	die	Wicken
genitive	einer	der	Wicke	der	Wicken
dative	einer	der	Wicke	den	Wicken
accusative	eine	die	Wicke	die	Wicken

Further reading

• “Wicke” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Wicke” in Duden online
• “Wicke” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Wicken on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvikə/

Noun

Wicke f

1. plural of Wick