thick

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Englisch

Alternative forms

  • (meme slang: curvy): thicc

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”).

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”).

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: thĭk
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  • Audio (US): [θe̞k]:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪk

Adjective

thick (comparative thicker, superlative thickest)

  2. Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
    Synonyms: broad; see also Thesaurus:wide
    Antonyms: slim, thin; see also Thesaurus:narrow
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess‎[1]:
      The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
  3. Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
    I want some planks that are two inches thick.
  4. Heavy in build; thickset.
    Synonyms: chunky, solid, stocky, thickset
    Antonyms: slender, slight, slim, svelte, thin; see also Thesaurus:slender
    • 2007, James T. Knight, Queen of the Hustle:
      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.
    • 2009, Kenny Attaway, Nuthouse Love, page 82:
      JJ loved “average hood girls”, Cody loved dark-skinned thick girls and Mooch lusted for yellow-boned skinny woman.
    He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.
  5. Densely crowded oder packed.
    Synonyms: crowded, dense, packed; see also Thesaurus:compact
    Antonyms: sparse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
    We walked through thick undergrowth.
  6. Having a viscous consistency.
    Synonyms: glutinous, viscous; see also Thesaurus:viscous
    Antonyms: free-flowing, runny; see also Thesaurus:runny
    My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.
  7. Abounding in number.
    Synonyms: overflowing, swarming, teeming; see also Thesaurus:plentiful
    Antonyms: scant, scarce, slight
    The room was thick with reporters.
  8. Impenetrable to sight.
    Synonyms: dense, opaque, solid; see also Thesaurus:opaque
    Antonyms: thin, transparent; see also Thesaurus:transparent
    We drove through thick fog.
  9. (Of an accent) Prominent, strong.
    1. Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
      He answered me in his characteristically thick Creole patois.
    2. Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
      Synonyms: unclear; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
      Antonyms: clear, lucid; see also Thesaurus:comprehensible
      We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent.
  10. (informal) Stupid.
    Synonyms: dense, (informal) dumb, stupid, (taboo slang) thick as pigshit, (slang) thick as two short planks; see also Thesaurus:stupid
    Antonyms: (informal) brainy, intelligent, smart; see also Thesaurus:intelligent
    He was as thick as two short planks.
  11. (informal) Friendly oder intimate.
    Synonyms: (UK, informal) chummy, close, close-knit, friendly, (informal) pally, intimate, tight-knit
    Antonym: unacquainted
    They were as thick as thieves.
    • 1859, Thomas Hughes, The Scouring of the White Horse:
      Jem is a tall, good-looking fellow, as old as I am, and that's twenty-one last birthday; we came into the office together years ago, and have been very thick ever since
  12. Deep, intense, or profound.
    Synonyms: great, extreme
    Thick darkness.
  13. (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.
    • 2006, Christopher Carr, D. Troy Case, “The Gathering of Hopewell”, in Christopher Carr, D. Troy Case, editors, Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction, →ISBN, page 47:
      Thick prehistory also is interested in a much broader array of topics than the perennial sociological concern for how individuals relate to the collective and how social continuity and change occur in light of that relationship; thick prehistory addresses the social, biological, and psychological person.
    • 2013, John O. McGinnis, Michael B. Rappaport, Originalism and the Good Constitution, →ISBN, page 5:
      A thick theory, such as libertarianism or socialism, is not appropriate as the basis for a constitution in a pluralistic society in which the people hold differing views about the good (or justice).
    • 2021, Wanjiru Njoya, Economic Freedom and Social Justice: The Classical Ideal of Equality in Contexts of Racial Diversity, →ISBN, page 95:
      Nor is his defence of market capitalism likely to persuade all his progressive friends, because no matter how much fairness is achieved through an application of the difference principle, they are reluctant to accept Tomasi’s defence of private property rights or a thick concept of economic freedom.
  14. (UK, dated) troublesome; unreasonable
    • 1969, Anita Leslie, Lady Randolph Churchill, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 288:
      "Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the '80s."
  16. (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:voluptuous

Derived terms

terms derived from thick (adjective)

Translations

Adverb

thick (comparative thicker, superlative thickest)

  1. In a thick manner.
    Snow lay thick on the ground.
  2. Frequently or numerously.
    The arrows flew thick and fast around us.

Translations

Nomen

thick (plural thicks)

  1. The thickest, or most active oder intense, part of something.
    It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
  2. A thicket.
  3. (slang) A stupid person; a fool.
    • 2014, Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of It All, page 100:
      If there was doctorates in bollocksology and scratching yourself in bed, the two of you'd be professors by now. Pair of loafing, idle thicks.

Derived terms

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Verb

thick (third-person singular simple present thicks, present participle thicking, simple past and past participle thicked)

  1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To thicken.

Synonyms

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Nomen

thick

  1. Alternative form of titch
    • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 3:
      Themost wi egges an heimost wi thick,
      One had eggs and another had a kid,

References

  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129
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