Wicke
See also: wicke
English
editEtymology
editProper noun
editWicke (plural Wickes)
- A surname from German.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Wicke is the 33695th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 676 individuals. Wicke is most common among White (94.67%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wicke”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams
editGerman
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom 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
editWicke f (genitive Wicke, plural Wicken)
- vetch (Vicia gen. et spp.)
- (obsolete) something worthless, a bugger
- (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
editDeclension of Wicke [feminine]
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editNoun
editWicke f (genitive Wicke, plural Wicken)
- 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
editDeclension of Wicke [feminine]
Further reading
edit- “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
editPronunciation
editNoun
editWicke f
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