thick

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in quick succession

   misfortunes come fast and thick

2. 2
   adv

   with a thick consistency

   the blood was flowing thick

3. 3
   adj

   describes someone that is stupid

   Sometimes I feel a bit thick.

4. 4
   adj

   spoken as if with a thick tongue

   the thick speech of a drunkard

5. 5
   adj

   (of darkness) very intense

   thick night

6. 6
   adj

   not thin

   of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions

7. 7
   adj

   relatively dense in consistency

   thick cream

8. 8
   adj

   Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

   The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.

Etymology

From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian sjok, tjok, tjuk, tschok (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), West Frisian dik, tuuk (“thick”), Central Franconian deck (“thick”), Cimbrian dikh, dikhe (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Luxembourgish déck (“thick”), Yiddish דיק (dik, “thick”), Danish tyk (“thick”), Elfdalian tiokk (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Nor…