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wickest

wickest is the superlative form of wick.

Meaning of wick

Adjective

wick (comparative wicker or more wick, superlative wickest or most wick)

  1. (England, Northern England, Yorkshire) Synonym of quick (“alive, living; also, active, lively”).
    • Well! yo must know I were in th' Infirmary for a fever, and times were rare and bad; and there be good chaps there to a man, while he's wick, whate'er they may be about cutting him up at after.1848, [Elizabeth Gaskell], chapter VIII, in Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life. […] (Chapman and Hall’s Series of Original Works of Fiction, Biography, and General Literature), volume I, London...
    Synonyms:
    quick

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Questions about wickest

What is wickest the superlative form of?
Wickest is the superlative form of wick.

Words near wickest in the dictionary

  1. wickerworked
  2. wickerworker
  3. wickerworkers
  4. wickerworks
  5. Wickes
  6. wickest
  7. wicket
  8. wicket gate
  9. wicket gates
  10. wicket keeper
  11. wicket keepers

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