Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.
Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
I want some planks that are two inches thick.
In a thick manner.
Snow lay thick on the ground.
Frequently or numerously.
The arrows flew thick and fast around us.
The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
A thicket.
gloomy thicks
To thicken.
A wicked ambush , which lay hidden long In the close covert of her guilful eyen, Thence breaking forth , did thick about me throng
Alternative form of thilk (“that same”).
From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”). Cognates Cognate...
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A stupid person; a fool.
If there was doctorates in bollocksology and scratching yourself in bed, the two of you'd be professors by now. Pair of loafing, idle thicks.