The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sike \Sike\, n. [AS. s[=i]c. Cf. Sig.] A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Sike \Sike\, n. [See Sick.] A sick person. [Prov. Eng.]
Sike \Sike\, v. i. To sigh. [Obs.]
That for his wife weepeth and siketh sore.
--Chaucer.
Sike \Sike\, n.
A sigh. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Sik \Sik\, Sike \Sike\, a.
Such. See Such. [Obs.] ``Sike fancies weren foolerie.''
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also syke, "small stream," a Scottish and Northern word, from Old English sic or cognate Old Norse sik "a ditch, trench."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer. Etymology 2
n. (context archaic English) A sigh. vb. (context archaic English) To sigh or sob. Etymology 3
interj. (context slang English) Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled ("psych out) one's interlocutor.
Usage examples of "sike".
Our Hermy attended as Psyche -- She siked and she got it across And Fothergil Finch, rather gaumy With Cosmic cosmetics, was there, But the Swami went just as the Swami, After oiling the kinks in his hair.
This process took the equivalent of two full earth years and many Geet generations , but Sikes was patient and focused.
Sikes mercilessly murdered all of the Geets he could find whose hair was not the same color as the beams of the growth lights positioned in the fields of Aldebaran.
The men unbuckled themselves and shuffled into line, Huerta taking his place at the head, facing Sikes.
Sikes looked at the map Huerta had drawn, then compared it with the actual camp, spread out below them in the golden light of the dawn.
During the sikes of peace, Eas had transformed itself from a frontier village to a wealthy town.
Sikes pretends to be dead with a knife in his neck when Denise distracts Griffith.
Our Hermy attended as Psyche -- She siked and she got it across And Fothergil Finch, rather gaumy With Cosmic cosmetics, was there, But the Swami went just as the Swami, After oiling the kinks in his hair.
Durham detectives Nick Ruskin and Davey Sikes finally came down to see us an hour and a quarter after we arrived.
Sampson and I followed Ruskin and Sikes out to their car, a forest-green Saab Turbo.
Homicide detectives Nick Ruskin and Davey Sikes stayed close to Kate during the course of the TV taping.
Nick Ruskin and Sikes took Sampson and me over to the suspects board that had been put up.
I filled her in on our latest day of detective work, our disappointing meeting with Ruskin and Sikes, and she told us about her day at the hospital, even some verbatims from her off-service notes.
Nick Ruskin and Davey Sikes were inside the interrogation room in a flash, and Kyle and Sampson were right behind them.
Nick Ruskin and Davey Sikes joked around some with their brother officers in the crowded foyer.