wicked: [13] Wicked and witch are closely related. Wicked is an extension, using the suffix -ed, of the now obsolete adjective wick ‘wicked’. And this in turn originated as an adjectival use of Old English wicca ‘wizard’, whose feminine form is the ancestor of modern English witch. => witch
wicked (adj.)
c. 1200, extended form of earlier wick "bad, wicked, false" (12c.), which apparently is an adjectival use of Old English wicca "wizard" (see wicca). Formed as if a past participle, but there is no corresponding verb. For evolution, compare wretched from wretch. Slang ironic sense of "wonderful" first attested 1920, in F. Scott Fitzgerald. As an adverb from early 15c. Related: Wickedly.
中文解释
1. ck <----> tch.2. witch => wicked.
实用例句
1. She had a wicked sense of humour.
她有种古灵精怪的幽默感。
来自柯林斯例句
2. All her fault, the wicked little so-and-so.
都是她的错，这个小坏东西。
来自柯林斯例句
3. She described the shooting as a wicked attack.
她称那次枪击为恶意袭击。
来自柯林斯例句
4. stories about a wicked witch
关于邪恶女巫的故事
来自《权威词典》
5. From beginning to end his conduct had been despicable and wicked.
