wicked: [13] Wicked and witch are closely related. Wicked is an extension, using the suffix -ed, of the now obsolete adjective wick ‘wicked’. And this in turn originated as an adjectival use of Old English wicca ‘wizard’, whose feminine form is the ancestor of modern English witch. => witch
wicked (adj.)
c. 1200, extended form of earlier wick "bad, wicked, false" (12c.), which apparently is an adjectival use of Old English wicca "wizard" (see wicca). Formed as if a past participle, but there is no corresponding verb. For evolution, compare wretched from wretch. Slang ironic sense of "wonderful" first attested 1920, in F. Scott Fitzgerald. As an adverb from early 15c. Related: Wickedly.
中文解釋
1. ck <----> tch.2. witch => wicked.
實(shí)用例句
1. She had a wicked sense of humour.
她有種古靈精怪的幽默感。
來自柯林斯例句
2. All her fault, the wicked little so-and-so.
都是她的錯(cuò)，這個(gè)小壞東西。
來自柯林斯例句
3. She described the shooting as a wicked attack.
她稱那次槍擊為惡意襲擊。
來自柯林斯例句
4. stories about a wicked witch
關(guān)于邪惡女巫的故事
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
5. From beginning to end his conduct had been despicable and wicked.
