thick
//θɪk//
Forms
- Comparative
- thicker
- Superlative
- thickest
- Comparative
- thicker
- Superlative
- thickest
- Plural
- thicks
Definitions
1.Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.
2.Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- I want some planks that are two inches thick.
3.Heavy in build; thickset.
- He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.
- JJ loved “average hood girls”, Cody loved dark-skinned thick girls and Mooch lusted for yellow-boned skinny woman.
- As she twirled around in front of the mirror admiring how the dress showed off her thick booty, she felt like a princess in a children's storybook.
4.Densely crowded or packed.
- We walked through thick undergrowth.
1.Frequently or numerously.
- The arrows flew thick and fast around us.
2.In a thick manner.
- Snow lay thick on the ground.
1.The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
- It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
- He through a little window cast his sight / Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.
2.A thicket.
- Through the thicke they heard one rudely rush.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2115
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
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Etymology
From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).
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