sike

• syke

• Rhymes: -aɪk

From Middle English sike, the northern form of Old English sīċ (see sitch) and also from Old Norse sík; both from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; trickle”). Cognate with Norwegian sik. Compare sheuch.

sike (plural sikes)

1. (Scotland) A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer.
   • A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512

     The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. bedoven in dank deep was every sike.

From Middle English siken, from Old English sīcan (“to sigh”), from Proto-Germanic *sīkaną (“to sigh”). Doublet of siche and sigh.

sike (third-person singular simple present sikes, present participle siking, simple past and past participle siked)

1. (archaic or Northern England) To sigh or sob.

sike (plural sikes)

1. (archaic or Northern England) A sigh.

Variant of psych.

sike

1. (slang) Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled ("psyched out") one's interlocutor.

• EIKs, skie

Borrowed from German Ziege.

sike

1. goat

From Arabic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɯkɛ/

sike ?

1. coin

sike

1. dative singular of sik