sice (pluralsices)
- Alternative spelling ofsais.
FromMiddle Englishsice orsis, fromAnglo-Norman, fromOld Frenchsis,sies.Doublet ofsix.
sice (pluralsices)
- (dice games,obsolete) The numbersix in a game of dice.
1680, Thomas Godwyn,Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta, page112:In their common game, the most fortunate throw is thought to have been threeSices[…]
number six in a game of dice
sice (third-person singular simple presentsices,present participlesicing,simple past and past participlesiced)
- (District of Columbia,slang) Toexcite.
2001, Robert L. Anderson,Finding Salliq:He wassiced about going, and I could tell he seemed to be especially pressed about having a sidekick. And, best of all, admission was free with the passes he'd copped from some honey he met at lunch.
- 2010 May 9, SaulReel, "I'm Siced" (song), in the video "SaulReel In Studio Performance Of I'm Siced"[rhymed withriced]:
- sice me up [...] and now you're feeling so excited [...] I'msiced
2012, Eyone Williams,Secrets Never Die, DC Bookdiva Publications:"I got Jasmine's Range out the shop. It's just like new. I'ma let you hold it, okay?" A smile big as Texas spread across my face. I wassiced like shit!
2014 November 6, Tom Bayly,Coffee and a Cool Breeze: A Summer Journal, Trafford Publishing,→ISBN:[I'm]siced to not be at work and about to head out on a road trip.[…][…] siced: Siced is one of my all-time favorite words. It means excited or happy about, or that you like something. You can besiced for something, you cansice something, or, you can just besiced as a general matter. I'm pretty sure siced is a local word.[…] I've also seen it spelled syced, cised, ciced, sysed, and cysed.
Inherited fromOld Czechsice,sic, fromProto-Slavic*sice. Compare Germanzwar.
sice
- admittedly
- sice...ale ―albeit...however
- Cesta bylasice hezká,ale přílišnamáhavá. ―The trip was nice, but too exhausting.
sīce
- inflection ofsīcan:
- first-personsingularpresentindicative
- singularpresentsubjunctive
sice
- inflection ofsīcan:
- second-personsingularpreteriteindicative
- singularpreteritesubjunctive