Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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det
Pronunciation spelling of such.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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noun
A brook; an occasional small waterway: a ditch, a gutter or drain; a ravine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
A situation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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History
From Middle English sich, siche, from Old English sīċ (“a watercourse; sike”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīk, from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; a trickle”).
Clipping of situation, with phonetic respelling.
