Wicke

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

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Anagrams

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
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

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
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

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Pronunciation

Noun

Wicke f

  1. plural of Wick
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