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My mind has been playing with this topic now for a few days and I’m sorry to say that not much bubbles up. The American Heritage Dictionary has all kinds of things to say about this word — the one below seemed to fit the bill for me.
wicked – Definitions from Dictionary.com
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wick·ed (wĭk’ĭd) Pronunciation Key
adj. wick·ed·er, wick·ed·est1. Evil by nature and in practice: “this wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred” (Winston S. Churchill).
2. Playfully malicious or mischievous: a wicked prank; a critic’s wicked wit.
3. Severe and distressing: a wicked cough; a wicked gash; wicked driving conditions.
4. Highly offensive; obnoxious: a wicked stench.
5. Slang: Strikingly good, effective, or skillful: a wicked curve ball; a wicked imitation
Maybe it’s a New England thing, but wicked is not a word that I use extensively, especially in the sense of bad/immoral/mean/rotten/sinful blah, blah, blah. (I have lots of other, much more (ahem) creative, although not totally original, words that I use when I need to express myself negatively. Perhaps there will be a Sunday Scribblings topic devoted to that particular subject in the future!!) Instead, I seem to use it as an adjective as listed in #5 above- to enhance the adverb, usually in the positive — as in wicked good. And also as in, it’s wicked easy to get off the track while blogging — as I was putting this post together, I managed to visit and leave comments on 7 or 8 other wicked great to read blogs!!
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I liked reading all the different defintions of the word- it’s amazing how the meaning can be different from one area to another and from one culture to another!
Do you have to be from the New England area to throw around expressions like “wicked awesome”, because I can stop using it at any time.
Wicked awesome post!
RCJ — I enjoyed reading them too — it’s no wonder they say that the English language is the most difficult to master!!
Herb — I would be devastated if you stopped saying wicked awesome!! Besides, I’m originally from Northern New York and I said it when I lived there too!!
Wicked does not mean evil any longer. I feel wicked good after reading this post!
What a wicked interesting post. I guess the dictionary must have been pretty wicked too.
Marcy –
Nice take on this prompt… really dug the definitions… 😉
Good to read all the definitions, interesting how words can mean so many seemingly contradictory things.
A wicked reminder of how easy it is to forget the traditional meaning! Thank YOU!