wickie
nounEtymology Clipping of wicketkeeper + -ie.
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Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports UK, Colloquial A wicketkeeper.
wickie
nounEtymology From wick + -ie, because some of the wickie's duties related to supervising and tending to the wicks.
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Dated Lighthouse-keeper's assistant, whose responsibilities typically included the tending and trimming of wicks for the light.
- ... now I’m a wickie and a wickie I is. I’m damn-well wedded to this here light, and she’s been a finer, truer, quieter wife than any a liveblooded woman.2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):