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单词 hick
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hickn.1

Etymology: A familiar by-form of the personal name Richard: compare Dick, and Hob = Robert, Hodge = Roger.
a. An ignorant countryman; a silly fellow, booby. Now chiefly U.S.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > ignorant
chuffc1440
lob1533
lobcocka1556
hick1565
bumpkin1570
swad1572
hob-clunch1578
hoblob1582
clubhutchen1584
gran1591
bacon1598
boor1598
hobbinol1600
homespun1600
lob-coat1604
loblolly1604
hobnail1645
bacon-slicer1653
jobson1660
hob-thrush1682
country put1688
put1688
clodhopper1699
bumpkinet1714
joskin1811
yokel1819
whopstraw1821
chaw-bacon1822
lobeline1844
farmer1864
sheepshagger1958
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > lout, oaf, booby > [noun]
lubber1362
looby1377
howfing?a1513
slouch?1518
bowberta1522
knuckylbonyarda1529
lob1533
lout1548
patch1549
hoballa1556
lilburnea1556
lobcocka1556
chub1558
hick1565
lourd1579
peasant1581
clown1583
lubbard1586
lumberer1593
lump1597
blooterc1600
boobyc1600
lob-coat1604
hoy1607
bacon-brainsa1635
alcatote1638
oaf1638
kelf1665
brute1670
dowf1722
gawky1724
chuckle1731
chuckle-head1731
John Trott1753
stega1823
lummoxa1825
gawk1837
country jakea1854
guffin1862
galoot1866
stot1877
lobster1896
mutt1900
palooka1920
schlub1950
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > rude or ignorant
chuffc1440
mobarda1450
lob1533
lobcocka1556
clown1565
hick1565
bumpkin1570
swad1572
peasant1576
hob-clunch1578
hoblob1582
clubhutchen1584
bacon1598
boor1598
hobbinol1600
homespun1600
loblolly lamb1600
lob-coat1604
loblolly1604
hobnail1645
champkina1652
bacon-slicer1653
jobson1660
hob-thrush1682
country put1688
put1688
country cousin1692
clodhopper1699
hawbuck1787
Johnny Raw1803
joskin1811
yokel1819
whopstraw1821
chaw-bacon1822
lobeline1844
country jake1845
Hoosier1846
hayseed1851
Reuben1855
scissorbill1876
agricole1882
country jay1888
rube1891
jasper1896
farmer1903
stump jumper1936
woop woop1936
potato head1948
no-neck1961
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > hiccupping > a hiccup
yeskeOE
hicket?1543
hickock?1548
hick1565
hiccup1580
hocket1601
hick-yex1628
1565 M. Harding in J. Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 529 Be it that Hicke, Hob, and Hans, of your Sects haue impudentlie accused him.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Hick, any Person of whom any Prey can be made..; also a silly Country Fellow.
1702 R. Steele Funeral iv. 60 Richard Bumpkin! Ha! a perfect Country Hick.
1713 Acad. Compl. 204 (N.) at Hycke-scorner That not one hick spares.
1713 Acad. Compl. 204 (N.) at Hycke-scorner That can bulk any hick.
1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap iii. 113 So I yelled out back to an old hick of a gardener..and he comes running.
1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean vi. 106 I come from a small town and that makes me a hick. My opinions aren't worth much.
1925 Glasgow Herald 16 Sept. 4 In the United States the ‘Hicks’ are still for the most part tenacious of that doctrine which assigns to speculations a ‘bearish’ or depressing influence on the markets.
1927 Observer 1 May 10/2 It is..much easier to write a good play about hicks, boobs, hayseeds, highbrows,..and sentimentalists than about decent English people.
1928 World's Work Apr. 628 Broadway humorists, only a few years ago, used to make fun of Long Islanders by calling them ‘hicks’.
1929 A. Conan Doyle Maracot Deep 18 He could not make these country hicks understand.
1970 W. S. Burroughs, Jr. Speed ii. 39 The proprietor was a knobby, obliging old hick and he watched us all real close to make sure we didn't try to lift any fertilizer.
1970 J. Hansen Fadeout (1972) ii. 10 He was killed... They just stopped playing him. As though we was such hicks we didn't know there's such a thing as tapes these days.
b. attributive or as adj. Like a hick, unsophisticated, provincial. colloquial (chiefly North American).
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective] > rude or ignorant peasant
bacon-fed1598
hobnailed1599
pezantic1613
municipal1619
hobnail1624
swainish1642
bumpkinly1656
puttish1738
bumpkinish1778
hobbish1823
yokel1823
small-town1824
clodhopping1828
yokelish1886
hick1920
1920 S. Lewis Main St. xiv. 164 He graduated from a hick college in Pennsylvania.
1920 S. Lewis in Sat. Evening Post 11 Dec. 92/2 Why the plates turned over? That's hick-town stuff.
1921 H. C. Witwer Leather Pushers ix. 216 His..features wasn't bad looking in a hick way.
1936 J. Dos Passos Big Money 256 Tad was sitting there hanging his head, his hick hands dangling between his knees.
1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) xii. 243 He..nodded triumphantly at his friend,..who had been trying to persuade him that science fantasy was hick.
1958 Punch 27 Aug. 283/3 Why stick with some depressing Yank writer who takes a cool six hundred pages to chronicle the twenty-four-hour doings of a single character in a hick town?
1967 Listener 17 Aug. 218/3 Telly was still rather a hick affair back in 1951.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

hickn.2

Forms: Also hic.
Etymology: See hicket n.
rare.
(a) A hiccup. (b) A hesitation in speech.
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the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > stammer or stammering > sound or form used in
hum1469
hick1607
ha1612
hack1660
haw-haw1838
hesitation-form1933
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders i. xiv. 70 To pronounce them with their right accents..without either hicke or hem.
1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 218 Hiccup.—The orthography of this word is very unsettled; some writing as here; others, Hiccough, Hick, Hichoc, and Hicket.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Hick, the act of hiccuping.
1843 J. Crawford in Whistle-Binkie 5th Ser. 117 Mony hicks an' hums, Ye've war'd owre puirtith's antrin dauds.

Compounds

hick-yex n. Obsolete hiccup.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > hiccupping > a hiccup
yeskeOE
hicket?1543
hickock?1548
hick1565
hiccup1580
hocket1601
hick-yex1628
1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 99 Most of them had all the hickeyexe which brought with it a strong convulsion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

hickv.

Forms: Also hic.
Etymology: < hick n.2
rare.
intransitive. To hiccup.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > have respiratory spasm [verb (intransitive)] > hiccup
yeskc1350
yoke1527
hiccup1580
hicket1584
hickock1598
hick1825
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Hick, to hiccup.

Derivatives

ˈhickingly adv. in the manner of a hiccup; with short spasmodic efforts.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [adverb] > spasmodically
hickingly1607
spasmodically1839
galvanically1849
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 377 He would cough and cannot but hickingly, as though he had eaten small bones.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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