A few days ago
Where does the word wicked come from?
I hear a lot of people use it in L.A. (I don’t know if it’s all of L.A. or just the suburbs) but I know it originally came from somewhere in the East. Is it from Boston or somewhere like that?
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wicked –
Slang term common in New England and Upstate New York, meaning “very” or “extremely”. Example: “That was wicked cool”
Slang in the British Isles for “excellent” or “great.” Example: “That’s wicked!”
wicked
c.1275, earlier wick (12c.), apparently an adj. use of O.E. wicca “wizard” (see wicca). For evolution, cf. wretched from wretch. Slang ironic sense of “wonderful” first attested 1920, in F. Scott Fitzgerald.
wicked Adj.
1. Fantastic, excellent. [Orig. U.S.]
2. Very, really. E.g.”I got wicked drunk last night.”
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A few days ago
Yes it’s from the whole New England area. We lived up there for a year and every restaurant, club, etc has a special something with the work “wicked” in it. Crazy huh?
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A few days ago
Its derived from the word wicca.
Its use in American slang is from New England and Upstate New York.
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A few days ago
ENGLAND.
‘WICKED DUDE, U GOT THE NEW HARRY POTTER BOOK”
“UH TOTTALLY WICKED HUH?”
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