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hick

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • //hɪk//

An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.

noun

  1. 1

    An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.

Etymology

From Hick (“pet form of Richard”).

verb

  1. 1

    To hiccup.

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Forms

plural
hicks
past tense
hicked
past participle
hicked
present participle
hicking
third person singular
hicks
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).