wick

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▶noun

• 1 a strip of porous material up which liquid fuel is drawn by capillary action to the flame in a candle, lamp, or lighter.

• 2 Medicine a gauze strip inserted in a wound to drain it.

▶verb absorb or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

– phrases
dip one's wick vulgar slang (of a man) have sex.
get on someone's wick Brit. informal annoy someone.

– origin OE wēoce, of W. Gmc origin.

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▶noun

• 1 [in place names] a town, hamlet, or district.

• 2 dialect a dairy farm.

– origin OE wīc ‘dwelling place’, prob. based on L. vicus ‘street, village’.

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▶adjective N. English quick; lively.

– origin C18: var. of quick.