wicked

Meanings

Adjective

• Evil or mischievous by nature.
• Excellent; awesome; masterful.
• Having a wick.
• Active; brisk.
• Infested with maggots.
• Alternative of wick, as applying to inanimate objects only.

Adverb

• Very, extremely.

Verb

• Past of wick

Origin

• From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke. Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wiċċa, from Proto-Germanic *wikkô, though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain.
• See wick.
• See wick.