| 释义 |
wickwick /wɪk/ noun [countable]   wickOrigin: Old English weoce - He took one of the smaller candles and, striking a match, held it to the wick.
- On successive Sundays he would repeat this ritual until every wick was alight.
- Smoke that smelt of churches poured from the wicks, drifted over the slowly heaving ocean, hid their feet.
- The wick flickered hesitantly, then licked upward into a bright yellow tongue.
- The flame of the wick was blown down to touch the paraffin in the body of the lamp.
- Twice, its wick collapses in wax.
- With shears from her basket, the Pysillian trimmed the wick, to steady it.
► Gas/Coal/Oilanthracite, nounblack gold, nounblowout, nounboost, nounbunker, nounbutane, nounCalor gas, nounclinker, nouncoal, nouncoal bunker, nouncoalfield, nouncoal gas, nouncoal hole, nouncoalhouse, nounCoalite, coalman, nouncoal mine, nouncoke, nouncolliery, nouncrude, noundrill, verbdrilling platform, nounflue, nounfossil fuel, noungallery, noungas, noungasholder, noungaslight, noungasman, noungas meter, noungasometer, noungasworks, noungusher, nouninternal combustion engine, nounlead-free, adjectivelignite, nounmethane, nounnatural gas, nounoctane, nounoil, nounoil-bearing, adjectiveoilfield, nounoil-fired, adjectiveoilman, nounoil rig, nounoil slick, nounoil tanker, nounoil well, nounOPEC, nounopencast, adjectiveparaffin, nounpilot light, nounpit pony, nounpremium, nounpropane, nounrig, nounroughneck, nounsolid fuel, nounstrike, nounwell, nounwick, nounwildcat, verb VERB► get· Ultimately, it just gets on your wick.· It gets right on my wick. ► get on somebody’s wick- Ultimately, it just gets on your wick.
1 the piece of thread in a candle, that burns when you light it2a long piece of material in an oil lamp, that sucks up oil so that the lamp can burn3get on somebody’s wick British English spoken informal to annoy someone |