See also: Hick

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /hɪk/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Homophone: hic
  • Rhymes: -ɪk

Etymology 1 edit

From Hick (pet form of Richard).

Noun edit

hick (plural hicks)

  1. (derogatory) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person. [from early 18th c.]
    Synonyms: boor, country bumpkin, churl, hillbilly, lob, redneck, rustic, yokel; see also Thesaurus:country bumpkin
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Etymology 2 edit

Onomatopoeic.

Verb edit

hick (third-person singular simple present hicks, present participle hicking, simple past and past participle hicked)

  1. To hiccup.
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References edit

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Luxembourgish edit

Verb edit

hick

  1. second-person singular imperative of hicken