Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See thack, thatch.

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Examples

  • The Formula 1 contract is very, very stringent and my lawyers were telling me yeh change karna hai, yeh theek nahi hai This has to be changed, this is not right and Jaiprakash Gaur told me, 'Just sign the contract.

    Will F1 Be Jaypee Group's Magic Formula? 2011

  • Dywel shifted his weight from one foot to the other, hands clasped behind him, as though he were wishing himself anywhere but here, and after a moment he said, his voice sounding slightly embarrassed, “Always better for a man to theek vengeance than to grieve.”

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Dywel shifted his weight from one foot to the other, hands clasped behind him, as though he were wishing himself anywhere but here, and after a moment he said, his voice sounding slightly embarrassed, “Always better for a man to theek vengeance than to grieve.”

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Dywel shifted his weight from one foot to the other, hands clasped behind him, as though he were wishing himself anywhere but here, and after a moment he said, his voice sounding slightly embarrassed, “Always better for a man to theek vengeance than to grieve.”

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • This blue bird brand is a guess i have to take each time, aaya toh theek hai - something like that...this time it fluffed beautifully

    Whole wheat pita bread 2007

  • Agar Sonia Gandhi ko nahin ban-neka hai PM, to theek hai naa yaar, Manmohan Singh is the best choice.

    Archive 2004-05-01 Chirayu 2004

  • Link (scroll down on page) Discuss (Thanks, theek!)

    Boing Boing: July 15, 2001 - July 21, 2001 Archives 2001

  • Thanks to (theek), who came through with this little beauty: sudo ssh - L 25: smtp. well.com: 25 well. com - l doctorow Works like a charm!

    Boing Boing: August 12, 2001 - August 18, 2001 Archives 2001

  • Hector's, the lassies wi 'their shoon in their hands, were walkin' easier barefit and savin 'shoe leather, and a young Embro' leddy, wi 'a hooped skirt wi' the braidin 'like theek rope on a stack, and high-heeled shoon, looked disdainfu' at them.

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

  • This epic-in-little, as tremendous an invention as exists in verse, is from the _Minstrelsy_: 'as written down from tradition by a lady' (C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe). corbies = _crows_ fail-dyke = _wall of turf_ hause-bane = _breast-bone_ theek = _thatch_

    Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys Various

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