thick

Betekenis

Adj

1. Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
2. Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
3. Heavy in build; thickset.
4. Densely crowded or packed.
5. Having a viscous consistency.
6. Abounding in number.
7. Impenetrable to sight.
8. Prominent, strong.
9. Prominent, strong.
10. (informal) Stupid.
11. (informal) Friendly or intimate.
12. Deep, intense, or profound.
13. Detailed and expansive; substantive.
14. Troublesome; unreasonable.
15. (slang) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.

Adv

1. In a thick manner.
2. Frequently or numerously.

Noun

1. The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
2. A thicket.
3. (slang) A stupid person; a fool.

Verb

To thicken.

Det

Alternative form of thilk (“that same”)

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/θɪk/

Etymologie

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”).
Cognates
Cognate with Danish tyk (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Norwegian Bokmål tykk (“thick”), Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), Swedish tjock (“thick”). Related to Old Irish tiug (“thick”) and Welsh tew (“thick”).

Zinnen

The walls were covered with a thick paste .

De muren waren bedekt met een dikke pasta.