wicker

See also: Wicker

English

Etymology

From Middle English wiker, cognate with Swedish vikker (“willow”), Old Norse veikr (“weak”), English weak.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪkə(ɹ)/

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• (General American) enPR: wĭkʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈwɪkɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
• Homophone: whicker (wine–whine merger)
• Homophone: Wicca (non-rhotic)

Noun

wicker (countable and uncountable, plural wickers)

1. A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture.
2. Wickerwork.

   wicker basket

   wicker cradle

   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     Then quick did dress / His half milk up for cheese, and in a press / Of wicker pressed it.

     The spelling has been modernized.

Derived terms

• wickerwork
• rewicker
• wicker man

Translations

flexible branch or twig

• Assamese: কামি (kami)
• Catalan: vímet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柳條／柳条 (zh) (liǔtiáo), 篳／筚 (zh) (bì)

• Czech: virgule (cs) f
• Dutch: teen (nl), twijg (nl)
• Finnish: vitsa (fi)
• French: osier (fr) m
• Galician: vime m, vimbio (gl) m, bringa f, buíño m, guineita f, guimia f, trogallo m, brime m, ódega f
• German: Weide (de) f
• Greek: ψάθα (el) f (psátha)
• Hungarian: vessző (hu), fűzfavessző (hu)
• Ingrian: vitsa
• Irish: caolach m
• Italian: vimini
• Japanese: 小枝 (ja) (こえだ, koeda), 籐 (ja) (とう, tō) (esp. attributive)
• Korean: 고리 (ko) (gori)
• Ladino: estera f
• Persian: ترکه (fa) (tarke)
• Polish: wiklina (pl) f
• Portuguese: vime (pt) m, verga (pt) f
• Romanian: nuia (ro) f
• Russian: прут (ru) m (prut), лоза́ (ru) f (lozá)
• Spanish: mimbre (es) m

wickerwork — see wickerwork

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Translations to be checked

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 고리 (ko) (gori)

See also

• basket
• cradle
• rattan

Adjective

wicker (not comparable)

1. Made of wickerwork.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.

Translations

made of wickerwork

• Bulgarian: плетен (bg) (pleten)
• Dutch: gevlochten (nl)
• Hungarian: fonott (hu), vesszőből font
• Turkish: hasır (tr)

Further reading

• wicker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Adjective

wicker

1. comparative degree of wikke