Wicke

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Wicke is the 33695th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 676 individuals. Wicke is most common among White (94.67%) individuals.

Etymology 1
From, from , from. The sense of a worthless item derives from the opposition to cereal plants; now “Wicke” is rather praised as an ornamental plant.

The idiom “in die Wicken gehen”, not to be tracked further than the nineteenth century and still rather rare, is less common with this noun than with and derives either from that old antithesis or from the idea of hunted game being lost when it has alighted in the plants. With other verbs it is only transferred.

Noun

 * 1) vetch ( gen. et spp.)
 * 2)  something worthless, a bugger
 * 3)  state of failure, wreckedness, only in the following constructions: