thick
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
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 North Frisian sjok, tjok, tjuk, tschok (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), West Frisian dik, tuuk (“thick”), Central Franconian deck (“thick”), Cimbrian dikh, dikhe (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Luxembourgish déck (“thick”), Yiddish דיק (dik, “thick”), Danish tyk (“thick”), Elfdalian tiokk (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk, tykk (“thick”), Scanian tjykker (“thick”), Swedish tjock (“thick”); also Cornish and Welsh tew (“thick”), Irish tiubh, tiugh (“thick”), Manx çhiu (“thick”), Scottish Gaelic tiugh (“thick”).
Inflected forms:
form: thicker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: thickest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: thicker
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: thickest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: thicks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
pos: adj
examples: The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.
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.[…].
gloss: Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
pos: adj
examples: I want some planks that are two inches thick.
gloss: Heavy in build; thickset.
pos: adj
examples: He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.
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.
JJ loved “average hood girls”, Cody loved dark-skinned thick girls and Mooch lusted for yellow-boned skinny woman.
gloss: Densely crowded or packed.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Having a viscous consistency.
pos: adj
examples: My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.
gloss: Abounding in number.
pos: adj
examples: The room was thick with reporters.
Seashells lay thick on the beach.
gloss: Impenetrable to sight.
pos: adj
examples: We drove through thick fog.
gloss: Prominent, strong.
pos: adj
examples: He answered me in his characteristically thick Creole patois.
gloss: Prominent, strong.
pos: adj
examples: We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent.
gloss: Stupid.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: He was as thick as two short planks.
gloss: Friendly or intimate.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: They were as thick as thieves.
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
gloss: Deep, intense, or profound.
pos: adj
examples: Thick darkness.
gloss: Detailed and expansive; substantive.
pos: adj
tags: literary
examples: 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.
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).
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.
gloss: Troublesome; unreasonable.
pos: adj
tags: UK
dated
examples: “Screaming headlines in every paper in the country—damn all journalists, I say! Do you know there was a whole crowd staring in at the lodge gates this morning. Sort of Madame Tussaud’s chamber of horrors business that can be seen for nothing. Pretty thick, isn’t it?”
"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."
gloss: Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: A word to the thick soul sistas, I want to get with ya
gloss: In a thick manner.
pos: adv
examples: Snow lay thick on the ground.
gloss: Frequently or numerously.
pos: adv
examples: The arrows flew thick and fast around us.
gloss: The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
pos: noun
examples: It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
He through a little window cast his sight / Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.
gloss: A thicket.
pos: noun
examples: gloomy thicks
Through the thicke they heard one rudely rush.
gloss: A stupid person; a fool.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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 words: blood is thicker than water
come thick and fast
get through one's thick skull
have a thick head
hyperthick
in the thick of it
lay it on thick
paper-thick
semithick
slim-thick
spread it on thick
superthick
the thick plottens
thickalicious
thick and fast
thick and thin
thick-and-thin block
thick and threefold
thick around the middle
thick as a brick
thick as a plank
thick as a whale omelette
thick as champ
thick as mince
thick as pig shit
thick as thieves
thick as two short planks
thickbill
thick-billed green pigeon
thick-billed longspur
thick-billed murre
thick-billed seedeater
thick-brained
thick client
thick-crust pizza
thick ear
thick end
thicket
thickflowing
thickhead
thickheaded
thick-headed
thick-horned nudibranch
thickie
thickish
thick-knee
thickleaf
thick-leaved poison
thick lip
thicklips
thickly
thickneck
thickness
thicknet
thicko
thick of things
thick on the ground
thick origami
thick sandwich course
thick sandwich degree
thickset
thick-set
thickshake
thick skin
thickskin
thick-skinned
thick-skinnedness
thickskull
thick-skulled
thicksome
thick space
thick stuff
thick-tailed bushbaby
thick tea
thick translation
thick-un
thick wind
thickwit
thick-witted
thickwitted
thicky
ultrathick
warty thick-toed gecko
in the thick of
through thick and thin
thick of thins
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 濃 /浓
roman: nóng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 厚
roman: hòu
lang: Czech
word: hustý
lang: Dutch
word: dicht
lang: Dutch
word: dichte
lang: Finnish
word: samea
lang: French
word: épais
lang: French
word: opaque
lang: Japanese
word: 濃い
roman: koi
lang: Macedonian
word: густ
roman: gust
lang: Norman
word: êpais
lang: Portuguese
word: espesso
lang: Portuguese
word: denso
lang: Romanian
word: tulbure
lang: Russian
word: густо́й
roman: gustój
lang: Swedish
word: tjock
lang: Swedish
word: tät
lang: Ukrainian
word: густи́й
roman: hustýj