wickie

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English[edit]

Spout of a five-wick 19th-century lighthouse lamp

Etymology 1[edit]

From wick +‎ -ie, because some of the wickie's duties related to supervising and tending to the wicks.

Noun[edit]

wickie (plural wickies)

  1. (job-specific jargon, dated) Lighthouse-keeper's assistant, whose responsibilities typically included the tending and trimming of wicks for the light.[1]
    • 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):
      ... now I’m a wickie and a wickie I is. I’m damn-well wedded to this here light, and she’s been a finer, truer, quieter wife than any a liveblooded woman.

Etymology 2[edit]

Clipping of wicketkeeper + -ie.

Noun[edit]

wickie (plural wickies)

  1. (sports, cricket, colloquial, British) A wicketkeeper.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pamela Welty and Randy Leffingwell. Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast, →ISBN
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