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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1996-2004

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WICK, n.3 Also wikk. Sc. form Eng. week (Rxb. 1746 Sc. Hist. Review V. 187; Wgt. 1802 G. Fraser Lowland Lore (1880) 70; Abd. 1931 A. M. Williams Bundle of Yarns 52). [wɪk]Abd. 1996 Sheena Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web 2:
Aa wikk like ill-fitten sheen, Belle McPetrie wis gart spikk Inglis. It sat as weel in her mou as cut gless, bit the fowk in the toun cudna spikk the braid Scots o the kintra ... Edb. 2004:
Ah've been kept back aw wick wi the electric man.

[For the shortened form cf. bick, s.v. Beek, v.2, stick, Steek, Abd. [lɪk], leek, [brɪk], Breek, etc.]

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