wikke

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  vetch, leguminous plant of the genus

Etymology
Perhaps from an adjectival use of.

Adjective

 * 1) evil, morally wrong, wicked
 * 2) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3483-3486:
 * "enm"

- ‘Iesu Crist, and seynt Benedight, Blesse this hous from every wikked wight, For nightes verye, the white pater-noster! Where wentestow, seynt Petres soster?’


 * 1) sinful, depraved
 * 2) malicious, destructive
 * 3) harmful, damaging
 * 4) rowdy, fierce, fear-inducing
 * 5) harmful, injurious
 * 6) challenging, difficult
 * 7) bad, of poor quality
 * 8) deprived, miserly
 * 9) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 118-119:
 * "enm"

- ‘Alle the dayes of povre men ben wikke;’ Be war therfor, er thou come in that prikke!

Noun

 * 1) evil, badness
 * 2) challenge, hardness

Adverb

 * 1) wickedly, evilly
 * 2) mightily