wike

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  1. A Middle English form of week, wick, wick.
  2. Office; service. Ich can do wel gode wike. Oul and Nightingale, l. 603.
  3. A temporary mark, as a twig or branchlet, used to divide swaths to be mown in commons, etc. Also called wicker. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.]

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  • As the littlest one ran out of the room to go play computer games, he said "Deeda, it wooks wike you are crying."
  • Yessir, Barney Fwankfuhtuh - regulwations are fowr pwivate companies - not for govamint entities wike Fannie Mae and Fweddie Mac! —  Latest Articles
  • You mean Bawney (I wike your) Fwank rejected 0Bama, too? —  Hot Air » Top Picks
  • Several times in the last week, twice on the subway and once in a cafe, I sat near a baby-talking couple spweaking wike dis, in a wery squeaky voice, saying wuv wu oochy-coochie poopy. —  WordPress.com Top Blogs
  • Howsoeuer it be, looke how much it shineth, so much it burneth: her shining is her burning: her light a vanishing smoke: her last fire, hir last wike, and her last drop of moisture. —  A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier
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  1. from Middle English wike, office, service; apparently a use of wike, etc., week; cf. Goth, wikō, course, from Latin vix (vic-), change, regular succession, office, service: see vice, week.
  2. Cf. wicker.
 

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