sice
See also: sicé
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editsice (plural sices)
- Alternative spelling of sais
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English sice or sis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French sis, sies. Doublet of six.
Alternative forms
editNoun
editsice (plural sices)
- (dice games, obsolete) The number six in a game of dice.
- 1680, Thomas Godwyn, Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta, page 112:
- In their common game, the most fortunate throw is thought to have been three Sices […]
Coordinate terms
editDescendants
edit- → Japanese: サイス (saisu)
Translations
editnumber six in a game of dice
Etymology 3
editVerb
editsice (third-person singular simple present sices, present participle sicing, simple past and past participle siced)
- (District of Columbia, slang) To excite.
- 2001, Robert L. Anderson, Finding Salliq:
- He was siced about going, and I could tell he seemed to be especially pressed about having a sidekick. And, best of all, admission was free with the passes he'd copped from some honey he met at lunch.
- 2010 May 9, SaulReel, "I'm Siced" (song), in the video "SaulReel In Studio Performance Of I'm Siced" [rhymed with riced]:
- sice me up [...] and now you're feeling so excited [...] I'm siced
- 2012, Eyone Williams, Secrets Never Die, DC Bookdiva Publications:
- "I got Jasmine's Range out the shop. It's just like new. I'ma let you hold it, okay?" A smile big as Texas spread across my face. I was siced like shit!
- 2014 November 6, Tom Bayly, Coffee and a Cool Breeze: A Summer Journal, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
- [I'm] siced to not be at work and about to head out on a road trip. […] […] siced: Siced is one of my all-time favorite words. It means excited or happy about, or that you like something. You can be siced for something, you can sice something, or, you can just be siced as a general matter. I'm pretty sure siced is a local word. […] I've also seen it spelled syced, cised, ciced, sysed, and cysed.
Anagrams
editCzech
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Czech sice, sic, from Proto-Slavic *sice.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editsice
- admittedly
- sice... ale ― albeit...however
- Cesta byla sice hezká, ale příliš namáhavá. ― The trip was nice, but too exhausting.
Further reading
editOld English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editsīce
- inflection of sīcan:
Verb
editsice
- inflection of sīcan:
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