thick

Meanings

Adjective

• Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
• Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
• Heavy in build; thickset.
• Densely crowded or packed.
• Having a viscous consistency.
• Abounding in number.
• Impenetrable to sight.
• (Of an accent) Prominent, strong.
• Stupid.
• Friendly or intimate.
• Deep, intense, or profound.
• troublesome; unreasonable
• Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.

Adverb

• In a thick manner.
• Frequently or numerously.

Noun

• The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
• A thicket.
• A stupid person; a fool.

Verb

• To thicken.

Origin

• From Middle English thicke, from Old English þicce ("thick, dense"), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz ("thick"), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus ("thick").
• Cognate with Danish tyk ("thick"), Dutch dik ("thick"), Faroese tjúkkur ("thick"), German dick ("thick"), Icelandic þykkur ("thick"), Norwegian Bokmål tykk ("thick"), Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk ("thick"), Saterland Frisian tjuk ("thick"), Swedish tjock ("thick"). Related to Old Irish tiug ("thick") and Welsh tew ("thick").