wickie

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noun

Lighthouse-keeper's assistant, whose responsibilities typically included the tending and trimming of wicks for the light.

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Meanings

wickie1

nounwickie (plural wickies)

plural wickies

  1. datedLighthouse-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)

wickie2

nounwickie (plural wickies)

plural wickies

  1. UKcolloquialball gamesA wicketkeeper.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
wicketkeeper

Origin

wickie · noun

From wick + -ie, because some of the wickie's duties related to supervising and tending to the wicks.

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wickie · noun

Clipping of wicketkeeper + -ie.

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Cite this entry
APA

wickie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wickie

MLA

“wickie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wickie. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wickie,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wickie.

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