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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A small stream of water; a rill; a gutter.
  2. n. A marshy bottom with a small stream in it.
  3. n. A Middle English form of sigh.
  4. A Middle English form of sick.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer.
  2. v. archaic To sigh or sob.
  3. n. archaic A sigh.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Prov. Eng. & Scot. A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer.
  2. n. Prov. Eng. A sick person.
  3. v. obsolete To sigh.
  4. n. obsolete A sigh.

Etymologies

  1. Variant of siche. (Wiktionary)

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  • bilby I have one. It's Kneeedeeep!
    Apr 5, 2009

  • vanishedone So did we ever get that list of 'words that sound like frogs croaking'? Apr 5, 2009

  • reesetee Cathari, I really think you ought to start that list, having brought it up. ;-) Oct 17, 2007

  • skipvia Syrup has always reminded me of the sound that wood frogs make in the spring. Oct 17, 2007

  • cathari That's clever. Reminds me of the shirts we had in my department at grad school: a frog with a little word balloon saying "rhetoric."

    Anyone have a list of "words that sound like frogs croaking"? Oct 17, 2007

  • uselessness Nice! More sophisticated than my sense of humor. :-) May 30, 2007

  • jennarenn I once designed the following shirt for our psychology dept in college:

    front: I love to study...

    back: Psyc!!!

    (And I never got my stinkin' free t-shirt!)

    May 29, 2007

  • reesetee Ah. I see. ;-) May 29, 2007

  • uselessness It probably should be, but the Perry Bible Fellowship has forever changed my perspective on the matter:
    You Win! Sike. May 29, 2007

  • reesetee I always thought this was "psych," as in "I psyched you out!" May 29, 2007

  • uselessness Uncle Doug: "I heard your dad's getting you a Nintendo for Christmas."
    Me: "REALLY?!"
    Uncle Doug: "Sike!" May 29, 2007

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