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wickies

wickies is the plural of wicky.

wickies is the plural of wickie.

Meaning of wicky

Noun

wicky (countable and uncountable, plural wickies)

  1. Sheep laurel, a shrub of species Kalmia angustifolia.

Meaning of wickie

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.

Questions about wickies

What is wickies the plural of?
Wickies is the plural of wicky.

Words near wickies in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wickies (page history and authors); wicky (page history and authors); wickie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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