rick
/ɹɪk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""So this last week, you see, crown'd the business; an' on Satherday night the last shafe was nately tied an' sint in to the misthress, an' everything was finisht, all to the tatchin' o' the ricks.""
- "There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive ricks, rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows;[…]."
- "It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by."
- "No turning back now, rick: you are the property of the US government now."
- "Mark Watney is the first of them to be introduced on screen, in the middle of collecting soil and rock samples from the Martian surface. Rick Martinez (Michael Peña) jokes that he just discovered dirt, and Mark ribs him about the usefulness of his job."
Etymology
From Middle English *rykke, from Old English hrycce (“rick, heap, pile”), cognate with Scots ruk (“rick”), Norwegian ruka (“rick, haystack”). Related also to Old English hrēac (“rick, stack”), from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap”). Further relations: Dutch rook, Icelandic hraukur, Irish cruach. Doublet of croagh.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *rykke, hrycce, *hraukaz, wricken, *verwricken, vorwricken
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ɹɪk/
Usage
- American usage
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb