- the piece of string in the centre of a candle that you light so that the candle burns
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- the piece of material in an oil lamp that takes in the oil and that you light so that the lamp burns
Word OriginOld English wēoce, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch wiek and German Wieche ‘wick yarn’.
Idioms
See wick in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryget on somebody’s wick
- (British English, informal) to annoy somebody
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