Wicke

Significado (Inglés)

1. (feminine) vetch (Vicia gen. et spp.)
2. (feminine, obsolete) something worthless, a bugger
3. (colloquial, feminine, regional) state of failure, wreckedness, only in the following constructions

Conceptos

arveja

veza

algarroba

vezo

ervilla

Vicia

guisante de olor

Sinónimos

Erbse

Traducciones

wikke

vesce

vetch

veça

sweet pea

veccia

ervilhaca

burçak

ervilha-de-cheiro

vesce

kizin

Vicia

tare

αρακάς

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈvɪkə/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de alto alemán medio: wicke

Heredado de alto alemán antiguo: wicka

In summary

From Middle High German wicke, from Old High German wicka, from Proto-West Germanic *wikkjā. The sense of a worthless item derives from the opposition to cereal plants; now “Wicke” is rather praised as an ornamental plant.
The idiom “in die Wicken gehen”, not to be tracked further than the nineteenth century and still rather rare, is less common with this noun than with Binsen and derives either from that old antithesis or from the idea of hunted game being lost when it has alighted in the plants. With other verbs it is only transferred.