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wickie

wickie noun: lighthouse-keeper's assistant, whose responsibilities typically included the tending and trimming of wicks for the light.

Noun (1)

wickie (plural wickies)

  1. (dated) Lighthouse-keeper's assistant, whose responsibilities typically included the tending and trimming of wicks for the light.
    • ... now I’m a wickie and a wickie I is. I’m damn-well wedded to this here light, and she’s been a finer, truer, quieter wife than any a liveblooded woman.2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe)

Noun (2)

wickie (plural wickies)

  1. (UK, colloquial) A wicketkeeper.

Forms of wickie

pluralwickies

Origin of wickie

From wick + -ie, because some of the wickie's duties related to supervising and tending to the wicks.

Clipping of wicketkeeper + -ie.

Questions about wickie

What does wickie mean?
Wickie means lighthouse-keeper's assistant, whose responsibilities typically included the tending and trimming of wicks for the light.
What part of speech is wickie?
Wickie is a noun.
What is the plural of wickie?
The plural of wickie is wickies.

Words near wickie in the dictionary

  1. Wickham striae
  2. Wickham's stria
  3. Wickham's striae
  4. Wickhambreaux
  5. Wickhams
  6. wickie
  7. wickies
  8. wicking
  9. wickings
  10. wickiup
  11. wickiups

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