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单词 sitch
释义 I. sitch Now dial.|sɪtʃ|
Forms: 1 sic, 4, 6 syche, 5–7 siche, 6 sucche, 7 sich, 9 sech, seech; 6 sytche, 7 sytch; 6–7 sitche, 9 sitch.
[OE. síc, giving normally ME. sīch(e, siche in southern and midland dialects, corresponding to the northern sike n.1; cf. ditch and dike.]
1. = sike n.1 1.
Chiefly recorded in descriptions of boundaries.
969in Birch Cartul. Sax. III. 535 Of þam mere west..þonne innan anne sice þonne andlangc sices þæt cymð to þæm hor pytte. [c1160in Dugdale Mon. Angl. (1825) V. 584 In viis, et aquis, in sichis et moris.]c1315Shoreham v. 177 Ine flom iordanes syche He was ycrystned.1410Coventry Leet Bk. 12 Et abhinc vsque Merdonsiche. Et sic per illam siche diuertendo vsque [etc.].1523Fitzherb. Surv. 10 b, Some rynning waters be commen, as lytell brokes, and sytches.Ibid. 50 Smale ryuers, brokes, sucches,..and pyttes.1581Coventry Leet Bk. (E.E.T.S.) 826 A litle waye into the sitche there, called Sisley-hole,..& vnder the bridge vp the sitche to Hyndwell.1601in Ch. Stretton (1904) II. 195 Thence following the fylde..and then up a sytch called Newe sytch.1637in Miss Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., Half a land in the Barley field near Stafford's siche.1684Manley, Sichetum.., a Sich or small Current of Water that uses to be dry in the Summer.1826–in dialect glossaries (Chesh., Northampt., Shropsh., Sheff.).
attrib.1601in Ch. Stretton (1904) II. 196 Over Wittingslow Heath to Dunocke sytch heade.
b. = sike n.1 1 b.
1888Abdy Sheffield Gloss. 214 It is a gate at the bottom of a sitch or ravine.
2. = sike n.1 2.
1842W. Wood Hist. & Antiq. Eyam (1848) 114 A gravestone..found in a field which is now called Philip's sitch.
II. sitch
dial. or illiterate f. such a.
III. sitch, n.2 slang (orig. U.S.).
Brit. |sɪtʃ|, U.S. |sɪtʃ|
[Shortened ‹situation n.]
Situation; state of affairs.
1989Los Angeles Times 17 Aug. v. 5/1 Suppose they opened a nightclub and everybody wanted to come? That was the sitch when the disco-y China club officially opened Tuesday night in Hollywood.1992J. Whedon Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film script) 18 Buffy! Hey, what's the sitch?!? Wake up!2001Cosmopolitan Feb. 262 (heading) Searching for that perfect phrase to describe your out-of-control crush or a recent dating dilemma? This list of lingo will give you the right term for every romantic sitch.
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